The Ontario finalists for a nationwide architecture competition went on display Monday in the galleria at
Brookfield Place.
The competition, called
Migrating Landscapes, "explores how young Canadian architects and designers have been influenced by migration," according to the announcement.
The Ontario winners will be announced on Feb. 22, and the winners of the national competition will represent Canada at this year's Venice Biennale.
The competitions were the result of a call from the Canada Council for proposals for Canada's entry to this year’s Biennale.
"
Migrating Landscapes is about the theme of migration and what it means in architecture today," says one of the three Winnipeg-based curators,
Johanna Hurme. "It was informed by our own experiences coming together as first-generation architects ourselves." Hurme moved to Canada from Finland, while fellow curators
Sasa Radulovic and
Jae-Sung Chon came from Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Korea, respectively.
The exhibit runs until Feb. 24. The
Architecture Biennale runs from Aug. 29 to Nov. 25.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Sascha Hastings
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