Matt Shaw

3 weeks ago | archpaper.com | Jack Murphy |Matt Shaw

Another biennale tour through the national pavilions is cause for some reflection about the U.S. pavilion building itself. Should we replace it? It might be the most frustrating building of all the pavilions, and possibly the worst exhibition venue in the Giardini. Designed in 1930 by architects William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich, its symmetric layout is vaguely Palladian, with a front door leading to a foyer where visitors choose between going left or right.

4 weeks ago | archpaper.com | Jack Murphy |Matt Shaw

Another day, another romp through what’s on at the Biennale Architettura 2025. In case you missed them, check out our dispatches from earlier this week for more takes on the national pavilions and low-downs on the talks and exhibitions happening in Venice. Beyond the rammed earth utilized in the U.S. Pavilion, soil had a good showing this year. Australia’s pavilion, themed Home, centered objects and discourse from its First Nations team, and includes a circular earth-clad wall and bench.

1 month ago | archpaper.com | Jack Murphy |Matt Shaw

A rainstorm made last night’s festivities a bit soggy, but thankfully the sun has largely been out all day in Venice. Here is a slice of the action. In remarks given in Italian as a warm-up act for Carlo Ratti, La Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said that he has a “special capacity that lies in being attentive to the murmurs of the world.”Ratti’s press conference took the tone of an academic lecture, which is no surprise coming from the MIT professor.

1 month ago | archpaper.com | Jack Murphy |Matt Shaw

As always, AN is on the ground to report on happenings at the world’s largest architecture festival, the Biennale Architettura 2025—no longer the “Venice Architecture Biennale,” per updated style directions from La Biennale di Venezia. To experience La Biennale is to be deluged.

Nov 7, 2024 | f5.com | Matt Shaw

Matt Shaw Published November 07, 2024 In today’s AI era, enterprises are increasingly focused on driving innovation, improving efficiency, and maintaining competitive advantages. Central to this shift is the concept of AI factories. In our first article in our AI factory series, we defined an AI factory as a massive storage, networking, and computing investment serving high-volume, high-performance training and inference requirements.