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section_name: Epilogue: The First Architecture Biennale
paragraph_text: Epilogue: The First Architecture Biennale
  
  In 1980, Erzsébet has died, and a retrospective of László's work is held at the first Venice Biennale of Architecture. The exhibition showcases various projects built around the world in the ensuing years and includes the Van Buren Institute, finally completed in 1973. Zsófia, accompanied by her young adult daughter and an aging László in a wheelchair, gives a revelatory speech asserting that László designed spaces in the structure to resemble both Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. The structure, she implies, functions as a way of processing trauma. Zsófia ends her speech with a phrase she says László used to tell her as a struggling young mother: "No matter what the others try and sell you, it is the destination, not the journey."
  
  In 1980, Erzsébet has died, and a retrospective of László's work is held at the first Venice Biennale of Architecture. The exhibition showcases various projects built around the world in the ensuing years and includes the Van Buren Institute, finally completed in 1973. Zsófia, accompanied by her young adult daughter and an aging László in a wheelchair, gives a revelatory speech asserting that László designed spaces in the structure to resemble both Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. The structure, she implies, functions as a way of processing trauma. Zsófia ends her speech with a phrase she says László used to tell her as a struggling young mother: "No matter what the others try and sell you, it is the destination, not the journey."