[Editor’s note: this posting from Pasko should have been put up a while ago. The delay is solely my fault!] Concrete creations by concrete lads The 11th Architectural Biennale in Venice Grigory Pasko, journalist In the year 2006 at the architectural biennale in Venice the Russian exhibit was called “Inhabited Locality.” To the question of a correspondent about whether the name might be too transparent, the Russian architect Alexander Brodsky said then: “I’m basically more interested not in architecture itself, in constructions, in the material component, but in the poetry of space. But I didn’t want to get too poetic, hence such a nice simple name”. Entrance to the Russian pavilion (photo by Grigory Pasko)