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Autumn Review: Arum Installation and Exhibition by Zaha Hadid Architects at Venice Architecture Biennale

This year's Biennale theme 'Common Ground' shows how the work of the major protagonists of contemporary architecture - often regarded as independent individual creations - is in fact based on historical lineages of collective research.

The more our design research and work evolved on the basis of algorithmic form generation, the more we learned to appreciate the work of pioneers like Frei Otto who achieved the most elegant designs on the basis of material-structural form-finding processes. From Frei Otto we learned how the richness, organic coherence and fluidity of the forms and spaces we desire could emerge rationally from an intricate balance of forces. We expanded Frei Otto's method to include environmental as well as structural logics, and we moved from material to computational simulations.

Venice Architecture Biennale
Room 1.9, Corderie dell' Arsenale