Anhelina L. Starkova

The installation Ornamental Records from Tallinn by Déchelette Architecture transformed the main hall of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 into a dense field of rammed-earth columns — almost a contemporary hypostyle hall. The work explored the relationship between ornamental sensitivity, material memory, and resource-conscious construction through raw earth, industrial remnants, and sound.

The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024, Resources for a Future, explores the principles of architectural resourcefulness and diversity as essential conditions for shaping a safer and fairer future. Escalating global tensions, accompanied by the pervasive forces of digitalisation, artificiality, social atomisation, and material scarcity, have destabilised the built environment and triggered unprecedented diversity in architectural thinking, generating a demand for stabilising yet adaptable qualities in architecture and urbanism.
By examining architecture through multiple forms of resources—such as materials, buildings, typologies, orientation, urban planning, and society—the Biennale demonstrates how architecture is conceived, designed, and built today, while also questioning how future spatial conditions might be imagined. Grounded in local contexts, the Biennale adopts a global perspective and issues a clear call to action.
Addressing both architects and the wider public, the official programme of TAB 2024 is structured around three main chapters: the Curatorial Exhibition, the Symposium, and the Installation Competition Programme. These core events are complemented by a satellite programme, including workshops, conferences, seminars, and public tours.