With a little more than a month before the opening of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, firms around the world are finalizing contributions to the massive show, a grab bag of architecture and architecture-related exhibitions that will run from August 27 though November 25. As usual, there will be an “official” exhibition, this time curated by the British starchitect David Chipperfield, with the title Common Ground, and 55 separate national displays (with Angola, Kosovo, Kuwait, and Peru joining 51 returning countries).
Many of those national displays are government-supported, but in the U.S., the majority of funding must be raised privately. Cathy Lang Ho, the freelance writer and editor who is serving as U.S. commissioner, said it’s both a disadvantage that the government isn’t more forthcoming (the State Department puts up a bare $100,000), but also an advantage, since she had free rein to create an exhibition without Washington’s imprimatur.
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