Roderick Conway-Morris

Modernism’s dreams – and nightmares – at the Venice Architectural Biennale

If you want to know what the future of architecture might be like – and would like to learn about the past too – head to the Venice biennale, curated this year by Rem Koolhaas

Le Corbusier’s design for the Maison Dom-ino of 1914, built for the first time, in front of the Central Pavilion at the Biennale Gardens, by a team from the Architectural Association in London [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 14 June 2014
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