This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Laboratory for the Future, was inaugurated on the same day that the leaders of the G7 nations met in Hiroshima. Both signalled the end of globalisation, and both displayed the promise and perils of a fragmenting world.
Of all the arts, architecture is the most globally homogenising. Erecting copycats of Paris and London was a staple of European colonial policy. Today, the
