With the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale opening this week, fallout from the 2014 biennale is still being felt. And while the current biennale’s director, Alejandro Aravena, is riding high, one of its last curators, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, claims his standing in the profession has been damaged.
On May 24, Zaera-Polo, the former dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture, filed a civil suit in the Superior Court of New Jersey against university president Christopher L. Eisgruber, its dean of the faculty Deborah A. Prentice, and students and faculty “John and Jane Does 1-20.” His suit alleges that the president’s demand for Zaera-Polo’s immediate resignation in the fall of 2014 resulted in the circulation of, according to court filings, “widespread, false, and damaging public rumors” about his conduct. As a result, Zaera-Polo says in his complaint that, he has been deprived of “lucrative and prestigious professional and academic opportunities."
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