The latest in Phaidon's 10x10 series of critics' choices provides a bookend to the boom years and hints at a more responsible future, says Justin McGuirk.
A spindly half-broken umbrella and a thin plastic mac are all that shelter Teddy Cruz from the driving rain in the forecourt of the American pavilion in Venice.
A new generation of architects is demonstrating that we should stop and think before trying to solve a problem with a building.
The Californian architect maps the conflicts and transformations shaping the territory where First World and Third World meet – the USA-Mexico border at Tijuana