FROM IDEALISM TO CALAMITY

摘要

Scotland has been making standalone presentations at the Venice Architecture Biennale since 2004, but the sustainability of that engagement has at times proved less than certain. A massive overspend on a temporary pavilion designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects for the 2008 event precipitated the Lighthouse Trust going into administration and led to subsequent programmes being afforded a more limited scope. This year's programme, Past + Future, has been restricted to a series of five newspaper-like publications and associated seminars, but under the direction of Reiach and Hall's Neil Gillespie, it has more than made up in intellectual ambition what it has lacked in physical substance.