The curators of the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice have very ambitious plans: to transform an exhibition space into an architectural office. Announced last week, the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs selected the team of Ashley Schafer, Ana Miljački, and Eva Franch i Gilabert and their proposal to reinterpret the last 100 years of American building outside our borders in a project called OfficeUS.
"We want to examine the export product of American architectural firms between 1914 and 2014 through a lens of 'flattening' as a result of the process of Modernity," says Schafer, founder and editor of the architecture journal Praxis. "The U.S. is a prime perpetrator of that condition."
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