描述
A manifesto for a new form of architecture
Renowned architect Hala Ward designed A Roof for Silence for the Lebanese Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. The project – based on a poem-in-paint by Etel Adnan and on the Antiforms of Paul Virilio – has at its core 16 ancient olive trees of Lebanon that were photographed in daylight by Fouad Elkoury and then plunged into darkness by Alain Fleischer, who filmed them in their sleep, with the musical accompaniment of the Soundwalk Collective.
The Lebanese Pavilion is conceived as a musical score resonating with different disciplines, shapes, and periods to provoke the sensory experience of a thought articulated around the notions of emptiness and silence as temporal and spatial conditions of architecture. This book tells the story of the pavilion and explains, through plans, sketches, and models, the intentions and concepts behind the spatial organization of the exhibition.
