Architecture Australia

Venice in Review

Australia’s exhibition Repair is, by any interpretation, a unique experience among the 2018 national participants. Creative directors Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright of Baracco and Wright Architects with artist Linda Tegg filled the Australian pavilion with more than ten thousand plants from Victoria’s Western Plains Grasslands, which are sustained by a highly technical lighting installation. Irish landscape architect Dermot Foley found they had “curated an environment unlike any of the other pavilions at this year’s biennale.”

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