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pods, monsters, blobs, gimmicks and computer-aided design
Few architects have transform their cities so much for the better as the stonemason-turned-architect Andrea Palladio did in Venice 500 years ago. It is hard to turn one's back on this city-on-water, basking in the summer sunshine, and plunge into the largely obscurantist national pavilions and dark dockyard exhibition venues of the ninth Architecture Biennale. Not least because the theme of this year's show is metamorphosis: how contemporary architecture is bursting out of the chrysalis of rectlinear (Palladian) design into something more fluid.