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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:59:58 +0530
Living for the modern city
By Edwin Heathcote
Published: August 21 2006 03:00 | Last updated: August 21 2006 03:00
My theory is they Googled in the words 'architecture', 'urbanism' and
'cities' and my name came up 12th. The first 11 names probably weren't
available. The irony is that now, thanks to the Biennale, my name would
probably come up first on the list."
Ricky Burdett is being excessively modest in his assessment of how he
got the job as director of the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale. He is
an adviser to the mayors of London and Barcelona on urban design issues
as well as an architectural adviser to the Tate and the BBC and he is
director of the London School of Economics' Cities Programme's hugely
influential Deutsche Bank-funded Urban Age project. His is an
international, generous and intelligent view of the way cities work, a
view unusually free of pretension and the strangulated language of urban
and architectural theory.
cont'd....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ef35cb1a-30b0-11db-9156-0000779e2340.html