America Gets Earnest With Social Change Theme at Venice Architecture Biennale

A preview of some of the projects which will be featured at the Biennale's American pavilion this summer.

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Every other year, hotshot architects from all over the world descend upon Venice, filling the waterlogged streets and crumbly old buildings with some of the weirdest (and occasionally pointless) archi-experiments around.

At this year's Venice Biennale of Architecture the U.S. Pavilion is mounting an exquisitely earnest exhibit on social change. It'll include everything from a mobile food...