State Department press conference at the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello. Click images for a larger look.
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		Architectural Record editors— Suzanne Stephens, Robert Ivy, Clifford Pearson—outside the U.S. Pavilion.				Architect Enrique Norten, Robert Ivy, architectural historian Joseph Rykwert and Daniel Libeskind.
		Thomas Krens, Director of the Guggenheim Foundation and Robert Ivy.				State Department’s Patricia Harrison with U.S. Commissioner Robert Ivy and architect Daniel Libeskind.
		Robert Ivy (left), Patricia Harrison (far right), Undersecretary of Public Policy, U.S. Dept. of State.				Robert Ivy and Brian Sexton, Special Coordinator for Culture, State Dept.
		Christian Bruun, Curatorial Consultant; Laura Viscusi, Architectural Record Associate Publisher; Robert Ivy,Editor-in-Chief; Phil Arnold of Scofield.				Architect Jesse Reiser, Daniel Libeskind, Jeffrey Brown, Architect Nanako Umemoto.
		Holly Ivy, Montenidoli’s Elisabetta Fagiuoli and Robert Ivy.				Mark Schendel and Jeanne Gang of Studio/Gang.
		Architects David J. Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and Paul Lewis.				Architects Sulan Kolatan,and William MacDonald.
		Architects John Frane and Hadrian Predock.				Christian Bruun (far right) with party atendees.
		Nanako Umemoto, Suzanne Stephens, Jason Scroggin of Reiser & Umemoto.

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