Ian Martin. Scheme-fixing: the shame of a profession throwing projects for cash

摘要

Back from the Venice Biennale Fringe. The quality of stand-up comic architecture is, as ever, astonishing.rnThis year's Spritzer Prize was won by 'guerrilla reconstructivist' Tanzo Koyabashi for his pecha-kucha presentation on the transient nature of trapped air. He also won the award for Best One-Liner: 'I wouldn't say my mother-in-law is a rich philistine - she's my only paying client so far!'rnMembers of the audience, crammed into big reconstructivist cardboard cylinders being turned round by sneery interns, were literally rolling in the aisles.