[txt] Venice Architecture Biennale - The star system doesn't cast much light, but some national pavilions shine - www.latimes.com
Its biggest gestures - at the start of the exhibition, inside the cavernous old shipbuilding complex called the Arsenale - come from a parade of celebrity architects, including Zaha Hadid, Elizabeth Diller + Ricardo Scofidio and Frank Gehry, nearly all of them playing down to the moment with overscaled, underwhelming work. A separate section on experimental architecture, which Betsky prepared with a young Italian curator, Emiliano Gandolfi, has the opposite problem. It is dense and unwieldy, a thicket of projects containing a handful of stirring moments but no clear theme..[img] Biennale: sitting in front of the Arsenale - oddtag con flickr.com
