From August 29 to November 25, 2012 in Venice

It will be open to the public from Wednesday 29th August to Sunday, November 25, 2012, to Giardini Biennale and the Arsenale, the 13th. International Architecture Exhibition entitled Common Ground, directed by David Chipperfield and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta.

The preview will take place on August 27 and 28 and, the award ceremony with awards officers assigned by the international jury. The inauguration will take place Wednesday, August 29.

The exhibition will be accompanied, as usual, in the historic halls of the gardens and the Arsenale in Venice’s historic center, 55 national pavilions.

The events of 13th International Architecture Exhibition have been proposed by international organizations and institutions that offer their exhibitions and their initiatives in various places in the city.

These words of President Baratta: “The official theme is precisely Common Ground, what is in common. Common Ground’s ambition is mainly to reaffirm the existence of a culture archiettonica consists not only of individual talents, but also by a wealth of different ideas together in a shared history in common ambitions, ideals and collective contexts. “