Archinect - Features 2024-04-30T04:25:09-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150001297/you-say-biennial-i-say-biennale-9-of-today-s-most-critical-architecture-biennials You say Biennial, I say Biennale: 9 of Today’s Most Critical Architecture Biennials Mackenzie Goldberg 2017-04-06T12:50:00-04:00 >2017-04-06T12:50:45-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/hd/hds12jjmvzhsgd1r.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Every two years, hundreds of thousands flock to the historic small islands of Venice, where history and art meet to give us one of the most influential fixtures in the architectural world&mdash;<a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/24748/venice-biennale" target="_blank">The Venice Biennale of Architecture</a>. While originally a more specialized art-world affair, biennials now figure in the larger cultural menu drawing huge crowds and the <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/149985944/the-exhibitionary-complex" target="_blank">exhibitionary format</a>, occurring every other year, has proliferated in the past two decades offering the field myriad options for getting one's expo fix.</p>