After decades of Detroit ruin porn, America’s Biennale exhibition runs riot
Aaron Betsky on America’s Venice Biennale exhibition
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the imaginative but unrealistic proposals for Detroit on show at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale have left Aaron Betsky wondering if there is hope for architectural projects among the city’s ruins.
“In this era of media and migration, can architecture still ignite a collective imagination?” That was the question Cynthia Davidson asked herself when she teamed up with former University of Michigan dean Monica Ponce de Leon in curating the American Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale: The Architectural Imagination, on view through 9 November 2016.
#art #exposition #design #detroit #ruin_porn (nouveau concept et nouveau hashtag, donc :)