FUNDAMENTALS-REM KOOLHAAS'S RESEARCH-LED BIENNALE

摘要

Fundamentals by focusing on the first of three themes the Biennale will explore: Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014. He showed two slides: the first presented 12 countries, represented by national or vernacular architectural styles, such as a classical palazzo for Italy or a traditional courtyard house for Saudi Arabia. The second showed the same countries in 2014, each represented by glass skyscrapers with the provocation: 'What remains of national styles today? How did we get here?' But, as co-curator Stephan Petermann of OMA explains, the apparently limiting brief has instead highlighted the differing threads of modernity in the national stories of the 66 participating countries.