Victoria and Albert Museum presents a special project at La Biennale di Venezia
(Artdaily.org)

For the third consecutive year, the collaboration between La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London has made it possible to present a Special Project jointly organised by the two institutions. Robin Hood Gardens: A Ruin in Reverse is the title of the exhibition curated by Christopher Turner and Olivia Horsfall Turner at the Applied Arts Pavilion in the Sale d’Armi Arsenale. Responding to this year Architecture Biennale’s theme of FREESPACE, the exhibition Robin Hood Gardens: A Ruin in Reverse presents a 9m-high salvaged section of the façade of Robin Hood Gardens, the Brutalist housing estate by Alison and Peter Smithson currently under demolition. A specially commissioned installation by Do Ho Suh shows a panoramic portrait of the architecture and interiors of the condemned 1972 estate. Through archival film and images, the exhibition also explores the utopian vision of the Smithsons, and in documenta