CHARLES JENCKS TALKS ON THE ISRAELI PAVILION
...[the Israelis more than any other pavilion have, gone to a subject which is political, inflammatory and questionable for architects today, especially given the Lebanese situation. I don’t think they intended to raise these issues but inadvertently they have and inasmuch as September l1 is being commemorated in two days in America and is an American memorialisation through architecture of death, suffering and bereavement. I am a great believer that architecture should take a symbolic role and this exhibition does that. The problem is that it doesn’t have any place for the Palestinians who represent either 20 % or 50 % of the population. The Palestinians are not allowed to commemorate or memorialize anything in their past that has been repressed; such as the 560 villages towns and cities which have been destroyed and wiped out.]...