Rumour had it that at the last Venice Biennale in 2012 one of the exhibitors, Zaha Hadid, wandered through the Arsenale and muttered, audibly, 'this is all so boring'. This was apt: the last Biennale was a conscious attempt to plot a different potential path for contemporary architecture than the Ayn Randian computerised form-giving with which Zaha Hadid Architects has become indelibly associated. David Chipperfield and Kieran Long's programme argued that the way out was either a rather classical central European Modernism, or informal self-organised spaces, often in the global south. Given his interest in the latter, if not the former, we may expect some of these issues to return in Koolhaas's 'Fundamentals', which this time encompasses the national pavilions as well as the Arsenale.
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