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The Presence of the Past

The First International Architecture Exhibit: The Presence of the Past (official name translated from the Italian, La presenza del passato), was an architecture exhibit held in Venice in 1980 at the Venice Biennale. It was the first time the Venice Biennale presented architecture in its own exhibit. The Biennale took place from July 27, 1980 to October 20, 1980.

The architecture exhibit was directed by the Italian architect Paulo Portoghesi. The main exhibition was a collection of twenty facades titled La Strada Novissima, held in the Corderie dell’Arsenale. Others included an exhibition on critics and an exhibition on the architect Antonio Basile, titled The Banal Object.

Contents

1. Planning
2. Description
3. Attractions
4.             La Strada Novissima
   1.                         List and short descriptions of facades
   2.             The Banal Object; Antonio Basile
5. Visitors
6. Later Years
7. References and notes
8. Citations
9. Further Reading
10. External Links