This year's Architecture Biennale in Venice broke with many established traditions and set off a heated debate. Instead of glamour projects and star architects the head Rem Koolhaas is showing a kind of "making of architecture": the fundamental technical and cultural elements of building, grammar instead of poetry, trees instead of a forest. For this he undertook several years of research and preparation instead of - like his predecessors - drumming up projects by architect friends in the space of just a few months and presenting them under some non-committal motto. A surprising number of national contributions acceded to his request to take a look at the foundations and absorption processes of modernism in their respective countries. The large amount of work involved led to the duration of the show being extended and the opening being moved forward from September to June, which is why we used the summer break to compile a first summary that we publish in our October issue. Until 23.11 you still have time to compare this with the exhibition on site.
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