Why Do Europeans Care So Much More than Americans About Architecture?

Boston Globe writer, Robert Campbell, recently attended the International Architectural Biennale in Venice and was among 100,000 people that visited the 8-week long festival. He writes, “Maybe the reason is that Europeans more often live in cities and towns and less often in suburbs. In a town, architecture creates the world you live in. It shapes the streets and squares; it creates the monuments and special places. Architecture tells Europeans where they’ve come from in history. It may tell them where they’re headed in the future, as in the ”green” movement in the architecture of Germany.”

November 20th, 2002