David Chipperfield Selected as Venice Architecture Bienniale's 2012 Curator

If you’re one of the largest design festivals in the world and you’re currently mired in controversy over the removal of your beloved director and the apparent political patronage in the hiring of a replacement by a national leader who is now on the outs, what do you do? If you’re the Venice Architecture Bienniale, you do the smart thing and grab a big name to come aboard as your next curator. So they have, with the announcement that starchitect David Chipperfield, fresh off his