The Museum of Copying by FAT
at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
London studio FAT will create an exhibition dedicated to architectural copying inside a 5-metre-high model of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 next week.
A CNC-cut mould will form one quarter of the historic symmetrical building, while a second will be a spray-foam cast taken from inside it. The two quarters will be arranged opposite one another to create the structure, named the Museum of Copying.
“There is a history of copies of the Villa Rotunda that have been important staging posts for architectural culture,” explains FAT director Sam Jacob. “We hope to extend this history and explore how copying something is, strangely, a way of inventing new forms of architecture.”
A host of architects including Andrea Branzi, Denise Scott Brown and Jonathan Sergisonwill exhibit a book filled with photocopies as part of the exhibition and visitors will also be invited to assemble one of their own.
The installation will be on show as part of the Common Ground exhibition in the Arsenale from 28 August to 25 November. Watch director of the biennale David Chipperfield talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his theme and the current architecture scene in our movie interview.
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