South Curl Curl Rockpool, Curl Curl Beach. Photograph by Remy Gerega, 2014.

The pool as piazza

The public pool as Australia’s public space

Dan Hill
Dan Hill
May 11, 2016 · 12 min read

The Australian pavilion for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale focuses not simply on buildings, thankfully, but on what is almost the absence of a building, the inverse of a building: the pool. In doing so, it actually reveals deeper currents running through Australian architecture than most buildings do.