《雅典学院:希腊馆》展览

The School of Athens: Greece Pavilion in Venice explores the architecture of academic free spaces across the globe

3D-printed models of internationally renown educational spaces populate ‘The School of Athens’ exhibition at the Greek Pavilion to create a stepped symposium for learning free space.

– Referencing Raphael’s famous fresco,

The School of Athens

exhibition at the

Greek Pavilion

is transformed into an open and informal stepped landscape inviting visitors to interact with 56 3D-printed models of educational free spaces from Plato’s Academy to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

We treated academic common spaces as architectural specimens

identified, categorised, and made available for analysis and comparison,

Xristina Argyros

Ryan Neiheiser

Mounted on vertical steel bars and organized in a grid, the 56 models reveal the communal spaces within each university as part of an international student collaboration between the

Academic institutions included in the exhibition range from Plato’s Academy of Athens, the Carpenter Center by Le Corbusier, the ‘Infinite Corridor’ at MIT in Cambridge, The University of Cambridge courtyards, and the voids of SANAA’s Rolex Learning Centre, among others.

The ambition is to both look back, and to scan across the current landscape of university architecture, to extract compelling and successful spaces that are free – democratic, unprogrammed, and common

Xristina Argyros

Although we typically think of learning taking place in the classroom, educators and architects have recognised for thousands of years that learning also takes place in the space between; in the hallways, on the stairs, at the café, in the quad

Ryan Neiheiser

The pavilion is set become an open symposium hosting a series talks and events with notable experts from across Greece and leading thinkers from around the world.