The director of the 9^th architectural biennial is the Swiss architectural historian Prof. Kurt W. Forster (below). His exhibition concept, entitled "METAMORPH", is aimed at making the visitors become witnesses to the fundamental changes observable in contemporary architecture - changes in both the theory and practice of construction and in the use of new technologies.

Hani Rashid (above) founded the Asymptote architects' offices in New York together with Lise Anne Couture in 1988. Avant-garde designs using the latest technologies - which themselves have been the subject of many awards and exhibitions - have earned Asymptote a reputation as one of the world's most creative offices. The design concept for METAMORPH is based on computer processes such as "Morphing" and "Keyframing".