Architect John Pawson’s design for the newly consecrated Novy Dvur monastery in the Czech Republic makes up one of nine British exhibits at this year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture, which opened last Friday.
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Pawson, who is famous for his minimalist, zen-like style, spent some time in a Cistercian monastery to research the project. The British Pavilion was this year curated by Peter Cook, Royal Gold Medalist for architecture in 2002, who asked nine avant-garde British architects to present exhibits in stylistic or rhetorical contrast to each other.
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