The fourteenth International Architecture Exhibition , entitledFundamentals , has opened in Venice . honest to its theme , an entire art gallery in the Giardini ’s central pavilion has been turned into a “ throne room ” devote to one fundamental excogitation that has spanned time and cultures for millennia : the toilet .
“ No architectural treatise declare the toilet as the primordial factor of architecture , but it might be the ultimate one , ” aver Rem Koolhaas , thecontroversialDutch architect who calculate the exhibit .
accord to Architizer ’s Janelle Zara , the gallery describe our path to modernisation via a Oliver Stone latrine from ancient Rome ( above ) , to the flowery splendor of an 1895 Austrian Ditmar ceramic urinal , on through to Switzerland ’s aristocratical Diversion Toilet ( left ) , which contains a compact recovery organization that address and recycles reusable water on - site . ( In 2011 , it pull ahead the Bill and Melinda Gates “ Reinvent the Toilet Challenge . ” )
“ Truly , there ’s no part of architecture you ’ve even been closer to , ” bring Zara . “ Its design [ has ] conformed to ever - vary social constructs — the means that we have considered personal hygienics , privateness , the universal right to sanitization and our own bodily functions . ”
See more photos from the exhibit atArchitizer .
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