VAVStudio Installation in 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Reporting from the Front La Biennale di Venezia AND Team

Principals:
Arash Aliabadi, Afshin Farzin, Saman Shamsbeki, Sakhi Shirmohammadi, Amin Tadjsoleiman
Office:
Reza Katebi, Nazanin Mojahed, Mahsa Hosseini, Mahnoosh Nazari
Research Team: Homayoun Askari Sirizi, Khosro Salarian,
Film Director: Khosro Salarian,
Cinematographer and Editor: Mojtaba Yazdizadeh
Graphics: Elmira Mahnia
Fabrication: CARBON Studio,Ali Mirakbari
Web Design: Farzad Kafaei

Contributors:
Arsh 4D Studio (Pantea Eslami, Alireza Sherafati), Bonsar (Mohammad Majidi), Diba Tensile Architecture (Leila Araghian, Alireza Behzadi), Experimental Branch of Architecture Metropolitan (Arash Mozafari, Babak Rashedi, Aqil Bahra, Ashkan Sedigh, Pedram Dibazar, Siavash Ghabraie, Siavash Afshar), Farshad Mehdizadeh & Ahmad Bathaei, FEA Studio (Ensieh Khamseh, Arash Nasiri), Fluid Motion Architects (Reza Daneshmir, Catherine Spiridonoff), Hooba Design (Hooman Balazadeh), Logical Process Office (Elham Geramizadeh, Ehsan Hosseini), Metamorphosis Method (Amirhossein Taheri), Next Office (Alireza Taghaboni), Rai Studio (Pouya Khazaeli Parsa), Shift Process Practice (Rambod Eilkhani, Nashid Nabian), ZAV Architects (Mohamadreza Ghodousi,Parsa Ardam, Fati Rezaiee)
Special Thanks to Golnaz Sarkar Farshi, Hamid Bagheri
Sponsors:
Behrouz Mokhtari Architect
Dokmeh Studio
Irex
Lajevardi Foundation
Zeeen

Designing pattern, either as a surface treatment or a logic of assembly has always engaged both art and science. Moreover, by exploring many complexities of the nature, we can discover simple or intricate patterns, that structure an amazing or even at times an unexpected product.

chronologically studying the Iranian art and architecture, numerous valuable instances of formal, structural and conceptual application and design of patterns can be noticed. However, since a few centuries ago, the endemic capabilities of Iranian designers have been reduced to repetition and unproductive adaptation of what has already been developed by their ascendants. accordingly, they failed to make an efficient and practical use of the technological advances in order to approach the matter in a meaningful way. In-spite of that, exploring and representing the formal and conceptual aspects of pattern has remained a priority for the Iranian designers.

This dispute is the main driver of an exhibition that explores the application of pattern in the built environment in contemporary Iran. Inviting designer of various backgrounds, it is an effort to unwind the multifold meaning of pattern and represent the various approaches towards it and its capabilities. This event reflects a part of direct and indirect endeavors by the contemporary Iranian designers who tried to generate and regenerate these patterns and hopes to address the historical evolution of formal and conceptual development of pattern in Iran. PATTERNITECTURE is a review over how artists, architects and urbanists in Iran construe patterns and its application in the built environment and tries to initiate a debate among them.