REFILE: Venice architecture fest tackles 'painful' modernity Star designer Rem Koolhaas said Thursday that adapting to architectural modernity can be a "painful process", as he prepared to unveil the programme for Venice's architecture Biennale. The Dutch designer is curating this year's programme, which opened on Saturday and will look back over the past 100 years of innovation. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES. REFILE OF PREVIOUSLY TRANSMITTED IMAGES.