REM LOVES THE SMELL OF INFORMATION IN THE MORNING JAY MERRICK

摘要

You can imagine Rem Koolhaas, renowned for his obsession with data collection, spinning that famous one-liner from Apocalypse Now to suit his own ends. 'I love the smell of information in the morning'. Francis Ford Coppola's film was based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and, in the experimental spirit of the Venice Biennale, of which Koolhaas is director this year, let's do some spinning of our own, and superimpose the storyline over the Dutch architect and his plans for this landmark event in the architectural calendar.