Comments on: Rem Koolhaas reveals title for Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/25/rem-koolhaas-reveals-title-for-venice-architecture-biennale-2014/ architecture and design magazine Wed, 22 May 2013 15:23:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Eh? http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/25/rem-koolhaas-reveals-title-for-venice-architecture-biennale-2014/comment-page-1/#comment-1096969 Eh? Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:29:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=285889#comment-1096969 Rem: "...national identity has seemingly been sacrificed to modernity". Followed shortly by: "...the architect hopes to coordinate the exhibitions in each national pavilion to follow a coherent theme." Something slightly weird is going on here. National content being sacrificed to Rem? Rem: “…national identity has seemingly been sacrificed to modernity”. Followed shortly by: “…the architect hopes to coordinate the exhibitions in each national pavilion to follow a coherent theme.”

Something slightly weird is going on here. National content being sacrificed to Rem?

]]> By: Elias El Soueidi http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/25/rem-koolhaas-reveals-title-for-venice-architecture-biennale-2014/comment-page-1/#comment-1096772 Elias El Soueidi Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:40:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=285889#comment-1096772 Le Corbusier's five points might be a good way to start, I''ll be interested in all different results and processes taken by architecture all over the world. Promising biennale, looking foward to seeing it. Le Corbusier’s five points might be a good way to start, I”ll be interested in all different results and processes taken by architecture all over the world. Promising biennale, looking foward to seeing it.

]]> By: nulla http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/25/rem-koolhaas-reveals-title-for-venice-architecture-biennale-2014/comment-page-1/#comment-1096519 nulla Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:53:45 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=285889#comment-1096519 Looking forward to seeing it. Looking forward to seeing it.

]]> By: nonarchitect http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/25/rem-koolhaas-reveals-title-for-venice-architecture-biennale-2014/comment-page-1/#comment-1095244 nonarchitect Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:29:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=285889#comment-1095244 Ok, I once jokingly wrote the new "five points of architecture" a la Le Corbusier for post modernist architecture (in grad school no less) and they are: 1. folded planes; 2. some kind of continuous spline; 3. translucency; 4. advertising; 5. grass. I'm looking forward to seeing what Koolhaas comes up with. Ok, I once jokingly wrote the new “five points of architecture” a la Le Corbusier for post modernist architecture (in grad school no less) and they are: 1. folded planes; 2. some kind of continuous spline; 3. translucency; 4. advertising; 5. grass.

I’m looking forward to seeing what Koolhaas comes up with.

]]> By: stephen alesch http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/25/rem-koolhaas-reveals-title-for-venice-architecture-biennale-2014/comment-page-1/#comment-1094413 stephen alesch Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:35:02 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=285889#comment-1094413 Great topic but my guess is nothing shown will really have any of the qualities of Architecture before Architects, that is unless I am involved. Great topic but my guess is nothing shown will really have any of the qualities of Architecture before Architects, that is unless I am involved.

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