The Venice Biennale: In Review

By Joe Ridealgh

Visitors to this year’s Architecture Biennale could mostly be seen staring, frustrated, into the confusing depths of historic urinals. Rem Koolhaas’ rejection of the artistic side of architecture is painfully clear. When attempting to ‘disconnect from contemporary architecture’, he seems to have disconnected from architecture documentation of the evolution of building elements, leaving little of genuine interest in a sea of catalogues.

Breezing over the masses of historic analysis, some parts of this

Based on the concept of localised heating, a motion detection travel through. The Israeli pavilion also provided some refreshing detailed site plans.

Every country involved in the Biennale produces a self-contained response to current architecture. This year’s pavilions proved to life, the secretary offering coffee on the door, the staff greeting documentation than a stand against the tall glass facades of from the tedium of modernity to a more diverse future.