Carosello Christopher Roth with John Lin, Lidia Rățoi, Davide Spina, Kaiho Yu Carosello Christopher Roth with John Lin, Lidia Rățoi, Davide Spina, Kaiho Yu
A Taiwanese, Romanian, Chinese, Italian, German collaboration
May 10—November 23, 2025
Arsenale | 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – Collective Intelligence

Carosello Christopher Roth with John Lin, Lidia Rățoi, Davide Spina, Kaiho Yu

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Carosello is a revolving diorama, inspired by Bernard Rudofsky’s Architecture Without Architects (1964) and reimagined through the lens of contemporary rural China. Housed in a cylindrical structure, the installation unfolds across three tiers: The Pilot presents the first ever aerial views of underground villages in northwest China; Miss Zhu recounts the (almost) true story of a woman rebuilding her recently flooded childhood home; and Rudofsky’s Ghost traces the circular journey throughout rural China, tracing and connecting diverse, locally-rooted ways of building. Carosello presents the vernacular as a mode of building shaped by—and oriented toward—adaptation, resilience, and reinvention.

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Christopher Roth

Christopher Roth was born in Munich, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin. His practice may be best understood as a kind of proactive intellectual scholarship that combines the factual and fictitious,...