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Freespace: the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

The sensibility of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale was overwhelmingly an interior one. Potentially unsettling for the interior design profession, a turn toward “the interior” has been surfacing for some time. In 2016, the topic for the Harvard Graduate School of Design Symposium on Architecture was Interior Matters – “the great ignored of Modernism that is the interior.” While these are provocative words in the context of interior design, similar attention and concern toward interior conditions, inhabitation, space and time were reiterated through the biennale.

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects in

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