2024-10-30
31 分钟We report from the Tallinn Architecture Biennale and meet one of the designers behind Cathay Pacific’s new Business Class suites. Plus: an exhibition in London explores the role of ceramics in furniture design. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is Monocle on Design, a show where we discuss everything from architecture and craft to furniture and fashion.
I'm Nick Bernice.
On today's program, a report from the Talent Architecture Biennale and an exhibition on the intersection between furniture design and ceramics.
Plus, we meet one of the designers behind Cathay Pacific's new business class suites.
All that coming up on Monocle on Design.
We start today's show in the Estonian capital, where the seventh edition of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale is underway.
Also known as Tab, the festival first took place in 2011 and it looks to encourage collaboration between local and international designers and between architects and the general public.
Monaco's David Pleasant went along to meet the head curator and some of the participants at this year's event.
At the Museum of Estonian Architecture, housed in a grand neo gothic former salt store, Tab 2024 is opening with an expansive and multifaceted exhibition entitled Resources for a Future Living and Practicing as an architect and researcher in Kharkiv, Ukraine, a city that has been under fire from Russian bombardment since the 2022 invasion.
Tab's head curator this year, Ann Helina Starkova, has had to learn more than most about resourcefulness in architecture in a very real sense.
During the last 10 years, I was working in many, many different countries with very different backgrounds and different architectural mentality.
When I see such a huge scope of architectural visions over the Europe, even just Europe, you understand that today architecture is so diverse actually, and do this global and digital education environment we live in.
And I understood that really we have planetary sources that we can work, but what exactly do we have and how we systemize it, or can we do that?
Can we revolutionize the world with that?
Or do we do not need a revolution anymore?
The question was again raised, especially after my war experience, because, you know, when I saw how easily building can be destroyed, I asked myself whether I still believe in architecture.
What are the resources to build architecture, what are the resources for me to stay in this profession, to still believe in that?
And I asked each architect in the exhibition to think what is the role in resources?
What gives you a power to continue to work?
And that it was really great experience for me personally to be inspired by others.