The theme for this year?s Venice Biennale is largely an invitation for architects and designers to expand and think beyond architecture?s traditional frontiers and to respond to a wider range of challenges relating to human settlement. With news of political crises continuing to fill the headlines of late, Aravena?s theme challenges architects to respond. One such response comes from Lucas Boyd and Chad Greenlee from the Yale School of Architecture. They believe that:

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The theme for this year?s Venice Biennale is largely an invitation for architects and designers to expand and think beyond architecture?s traditional frontiers and to respond to a wider range of challenges relating to human settlement. With news of political crises continuing to fill the headlines of late, Aravena?s theme challenges architects to respond. One such response comes from Lucas Boyd and Chad Greenlee from the Yale School of Architecture. They believe that: While [places of worship] do not provide a basic need for an individual?s biological survival, they do represent a fundamental aspect of not only an individual?s life beyond utility, but an identity within the collective, a familiar place of being?and this is something that we consider synonymous with being human?a requirement for the persistence of culture. The two students came up with proposal designs on churches, synagogues and mosques that can be quickly built as ?Pop-Up Places of Worshi...