Editors of Places Journal willcurate a citizens library at the U.S. Pavilion for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.The announcement comes a few weeks after U.S. Pavilion co-commissioners Peter MacKeith, Susan Chin, and Rod Bigelow shared the 52 finalists that will represent the U.S. this year in Italy. Places Journal has taken an open source approach: Editors started an Excel spreadsheet where anyone can suggest ideas for which books should appear. Suggested titles should relate to the porch, and American civil society more broadly, to keep in line with the pavilions exhibition.In keeping with the exhibition theme, Places Journal editors shared, the library will be broadly focused and inclusive.Collectively, the books might touch upon issues and topics of importance to American architecture, design, and culture, including community building, climate crisis, civic engagement, and the evolving public realm, Places Journal added. We welcome recommendations for books of various genres, including nonfiction (history, theory, memoir, et al.), fiction, and poetry. We ask only that you limit your selections to U.S., tribal, and territorial authors and subjects. Places Journal noted that the possibilities are almost endless. You can recommend as many books as youd likethe Library might include as many as 4,000 volumes to serve as a resource or reference library for visitors, editors said. Those who submitted ideas will have their names mentioned in the curatorial statement.As of press time, there are over 500 books folks have suggested. Classics by Michael Sorkin, Marshall Berman, and Denise Scott Brown have been proffered, but also ones by more contemporary writers like Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Nick Estes, and others.