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Modernism’s dreams – and nightmares – at the Venice Architectural Biennale

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Le Corbusier’s design for the Maison Dom-ino of 1914, built for the first time, in front of the Central Pavilion at the Biennale Gardens, by a team from the Architectural Association in London [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]
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