Since 1968 Venice Biennale’s International Architecture Exhibition sprawls across the famously watery city for a few months every two years. Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014 is the idea of this year’s curator., Rem Koolhaas, and his collaborators At Giardini the exhibit spams from the Russian ironic views to the more pedantic Denmark, to pretty quiet Germany and Switzerland, while Holland centerpiece  Elements of Architecture, is an engaging look behind the elegant facades of international architecture.  Beyond the main events Arsenale and the Giardini, many other shows spread art qll around the city There is Sguardi Incrociati a Venezia at Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, a double Venice by
Japanese Manga artist Jiro Taniguchi and the painter, photographer and set designer Mariano Fortuny,