An exhibition called World Trade Center: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow will comprise the United States entry in the 2002 Biennale di Venezia, the international art and architecture exhibition that will be held September 8 to November 24, in Venice. The theme for this year’s architecture section is “Next.”

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD editor in chief Robert Ivy, FAIA, serves as commissioner for the American Pavilion, the first U.S. exhibition at the Biennale to receive funding from the U.S. State Department.

Half of the architecture exhibition will feature the photography of Joel Meyerowitz, who, with a large-format camera, produced more than 7,000 images of Ground Zero over the course of seven months. The Meyerowitz photography show is entitled The Aftermath and Before. The second installation on display in the U.S. Pavilion will be A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals. The Max Protetch Gallery in New York City organized this exhibition of more than 60 design ideas for the World Trade Center site [RECORD, March 2002, page 59] submitted by an international roster of architects including Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, and the late Samuel Mockbee.

Kevin Lerner