Architecture Biennale: Chicago vs Venice?
Enrico Zilli
PR+Press officer - Journalist - Founder and editor in chief at ArchiPanic magazine
Inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial attracted over half a million people, more than double the visitors of Venice Biennale. Let's look into it, going beyond the figures. Read more...
Beside the figures, Chicago Architecture Biennial proved that a good cooperation between the local municipality and the private sector pays back with a positive escalation. Venice Biennale 2014 started with a political scandal (the arrest of the mayor for corruption charges), but eventually good architecture became the true protagonist thanks to national pavilions and curator Rem Koolhaas provocation. Read the full story with comments of curators, links and more related projects.
"A biennale doesn’t necessarily have to sugarcoat architects’ egos or dispense dogmatic answers. It should push people to reflect, it should rise questions". That’s why we are all looking forward to the upcoming Biennale curated by Alejandro Aravena that will inaugurate on the 28th of may.
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