Real-world debates permeate Venice Biennale on architecture

 


VENICE, Italy (AP) — Real-world debates permeate this year's Venice Biennale on architecture, from commemorating spaces once part of the U.S. slave trade to maintaining the delicate status quo at religious sites in the Holy Land.

The sprawling exhibition, which opens Saturday for a six-month run, reflects not only on the political implications of what gets built but also on the empty spaces in between.

"We have to be aware of the political issues in order to make buildings which protect, in so far as we can, the status of the human being in the world,'" said Shelley McNamara, co-curator w...



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