As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage, we present the completed Indonesia Pavilion. Below, the curatorial team describes the exhibition in their own words. 

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As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage, we present the completed Indonesia Pavilion. Below, the curatorial team describes the exhibition in their own words. What if architecture has no form and shape" It will be freed.

© Laurian Ghinitoiu

Emptiness here is comprehended as an active entity; a singularity that functions as a prominent agency in life and at the same time, as a void which demands to be conquered. This conquest expresses in various ritualization. Emptiness is a concept strongly rooted in Indonesia?s Architecture. The elaboration of this concept disperses in various ethnics, with various implementations. While always being observed as establishing tacit order in particular space and time, the understanding is yet, always in the same tone.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu

Geometry is the primitive ritualization instrument of human triumph over void, establishing cosmos over chaos. It is the marking device to constitute order in space; making inception of meaning through dwelling. At this point architecture manifests as an instrument of liberation from chaotic space. Spaces become Places.

© Laurian Ghinitoiu

Sunyata or the concept of Emptiness situates dialogue between human and space as...