On my first night in Venice, just before the biennale opened, I bumped into some friends who were drinking with Bill Menking and Teddy Cruz, curator of and exhibitor in the American pavilion, in a bar in a scruffy bit
of town.
First impressions of this year's British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale were of a beautifully designed, very sober, quite stark, black and white exhibition using wooden models, graphs comparing space standards across Europe and magnificent photographs by David Grandorge and John Davies.
