Parsons Brings Venice Biennale to New York

Just in case you weren’t among the 129,323 people who made it to Venice last fall to visit the 11th Architecture Biennale, directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia, Parsons The New School for Design has brought part of it home. Opening today at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center is “Into the Open: Positioning Practice,” the official U.S. pavilion at the Architecture Biennale. And it’s not your grandfather’s architecture: curators William Menking, Aaron Levy, and Andrew Sturm focused the exhibition on the increasing interest in civic engagement in American architectural practice.