Breaking New, Common Ground at the Venice Architecture Biennale
David Chipperfield called the 2012 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale which he curated ‘Common Ground’. It was a call to his fellow architects to build for the common good rather than creating costly icons. At a panel at the Biennale Harvard’s Rahul Mehotra echoed his sentiments when he said: “Impatient capital is running the world and architecture has become a slave to it.” In this article for the American online magazine Next City Tracy discusses how in many places ordinary citizens are now bypassing professional architects and planners and are taking the lead in shaping their own environment.