Kazuyo Sejima [ 1/2 of SANAA ] appointed curator of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (Venice, 29 Aug- 21 Nov, 2010) > First female curator, first practising architect.

"Any part of architecture’s inherent multiplicity of adjacencies can become a topic. It might be argued that contemporary architecture is a rethinking and perhaps softening of those borders.
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Perhaps the oxymoron can represent a productive new paradigm; can these binaries (intersections of public/private, global/local, artificial/natural, monumental/mundane, complex/simple, symbolic/pragmatic, fake/authentic, active/passive, thickness/thinness) lead to a duality capable of blurring these boundaries? "