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As director of the 2016 Venice Biennale, Alejandro Aravena has sought to shift the very grounds of architecture. Rather than an inward-looking interrogation of the profession s shortcomings, as Rem Koolhaas undertook in 2014, the Chilean Pritzker Prize-winner asks us to gaze in the opposite direction to the vast swathes of the built horizon that traditionally lay beyond the profession s purview: urban slums, denatured megacities, conflict zones, environmentally compromised ports, rural villages far off the grid. We believe that the advancement of architecture is not a goal in itself but a way to improve people’s quality of life, states Aravena in his introduction to event. In other words, his biennale does not ask what architecture