Koolhaas to Curate Next Venice Architecture Biennale The Venice Biennale just got a little more star power. Its board of directors on Tuesday appointed the architect Rem Koolhaas to be director of its architecture sector, with responsibility for curating the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in 2014. Projects by Mr. Koolhaas's firm, OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), include recent headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing and Rothschild Bank in London and the Wyly Theater in Dallas. "We want to take a fresh look at the fundamental elements of architecture -- used by any architect, anywhere, anytime -- to see if we can discover something new about architecture," Mr. Koolhaas said in a statement.