Biennale of modern architecture, Venice

10th International Architecture Exhibition
Venice, September-November 2006

Main features of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition
On August 4, 2005, the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale, presided by Davide Croff, gathered at Palazzo Querini Dubois to select and approve the project for the 10th International Architecture Exhibition, along with the director and the curators who will be entrusted with its organization.

Just as for the three-year project 2005/2007 in the Art section, the Architecture Section of the Venice Biennale confirms its decision to take direct responsibility for the choice of themes in its own events, and to subsequently call in the greatest experts in the theme to articulate and interpret its future trends. As far as the International Architecture Exhibition is concerned, the Biennale believes that this event and this discipline offer the chance to confirm its mission not only to exhibit, but to develop proposals and directions to offer as tools for innovative practices with which to operate in the national and international territories and urban contexts.

The Biennale has decided to dedicate the theme of the 10th Exhibition to the meta-cities. The changes in the physical and social morphology of the city now allow us to delineate the features of a new civilian agglomeration: the meta-city, an agglomeration that extends beyond the traditional form and concept of the city, that has come to exceed traditional boundaries, defining new issues and needs concerning its governance, and undergoing profound transformations in the composition of its population, and in its working habits. The 10th International Architecture Exhibition will deal with these issues to formulate, at its conclusion, a programmatic document, offered to all those who bear responsibility for the planning and governance of urban and territorial systems.

The themes will develop within four distinct and complementary events: - the International Exhibition, centered on the transformations of cities and territories on the planet, which will be directed by Richard Burdett (UK), professor of architecture and city planning at the London School of Economics, currently one of the major experts in the world on these issues.

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