Venice’s XV annual International Architecture Exhibit inspired the 39th number of the Moodboarders. Alejandro Aravena’s “Reporting from the Front” is a unitary exhibition sequence of 88 participants hailing from 37 countries. Amongst them are 50 who are presenting for the first time, and 33 under the age of 40. This Biennale reflects on those who have ample points of view and the ability to share their knowledge, experience, sense of invention and relevance with anyone whose feet are planted firmly on the ground. Alejandro cited Bruce Chatwin, who, while travelling through South America, encountered the German archeologist, Maria Reiche, who was carrying an aluminum ladder on her shoulders in order to study the Nazca Lines. “Standing on the ground, the stones did not make any sense; they were just random gravel. But from the height of the stair those stones became a bird, a jaguar, a tree or a flower”. Alejandro continues to state that the Biennale Architettura might, “offer a new point of view like the one Maria Reiche has on the ladder”. We are reporting on a handful of the Venice Biennale’s installations, as well as designers who presented work at this past Salone del Mobile, narrating design that has no boundaries, speaks an ever-increasing global language still rich in local flaovur.