La Biennale di Venezia. 9ª Mostra internazionale di Architettura. Metamorph. Focus-Vectors-Trajectories. Catalogo della mostra (Venezia, settembre-novembre 2004)

The 9th Intl. Architecture Exhibition - Metamorph, directed by Kurt W. Forster, will take place Sept. 12 to Nov. 7, 2004. The chosen theme signals the transformations which over the past several decades have been so profound as to mark a momentous passage in the evolution of architecture.

La Biennale di Venezia announces the 9th International Architecture Exhibition - METAMORPH directed by Kurt W. Forster.

The Biennale di Venezia's 9th International Architecture Exhibition, METAMORPH, will explore the fundamental changes under way in contemporary architecture, both in the theoretical and practical design field, and in the use of new building technologies.

The layout of the METAMORPH exhibition hypothesises the visitor as a witness of these changes which, avoiding the traditional perspectives of interpretation, justify in an increasingly evident manner an open, innovative comparison with the evolution of the living organisms and their capacity for transformation.

Architecture today is required to show new commitment and has broadened its range of disciplines in a significant manner. Its new role is that of catalysing great social and cultural experiences on an international scale; experiences which are above all revealed in the modifications to urban structures and landscape. Architectural space is thus seen in terms of its capacity to live today's changes; the new materials receive and stress atmospheric effects, and the perception of architecture opens itself to a dynamic conception of time. Public life in the buildings takes on characters that are more centred upon the evolution of the setting.