For Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas Will Return to 'Fundamentals'

Following David Chipperfield‘s push to dispense with architectural egos and “create a tent where [architects] could show architecture instead of themselves” at last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas has signed on as curator of the 14th exhibition, which gets underway in June 2014. The OMA founder is also looking to escape the cult of personality–ixnay on the starchitects!–by returning to “Fundamentals” and looking back over the last 100 years of architecture.

“After several Biennales dedicated to the celebration of the contemporary, ‘Fundamentals’ will focus on histories–on the inevitable elements of all architecture used by any architect, anywhere, anytime (the door, the floor, the ceiling etc.)

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