Common Ground
13. Mostra Internazionale Di Architettura, La Biennale Di Venezia
Overview
An exhibition of sixty-six projects the theme of which is what people have in common. The ambition of the exhibition is to reassert the existence of an architectural culture, made up not just of singular talents but a rich continuity of diverse ideas united in a common history, common ambitions, common predicaments and ideals. In architecture everything begins with the ground. It is our physical datum, where we make the first mark, digging the foundations that will support our shelter. On the ground we draw the line that defines the boundary of what is enclosed and what is common. Today our relationship to the ground is no longer so direct, but it remains critical to our understanding of our place and where we stand. [Taken from Amazon website].