The weather was hot and expectations were high. But over the Venice Biennale's opening weekend, curated by SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima, it became clear that this year's architecture exhibition would be a success.rnThe theme is 'people meet in architecture'; open-ended and a nebulous conceit, but also one tippedrntoward exploring architecture's public role. In the catalogue, president of the biennale Paolo Baratta writes that the theme is a conscious shift 'back to a more serene faith in architecture' and a belief that it has a real contribution to make to society.
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