La Biennale di Venezia's 18th International Architecture Exhibition concluded yesterday with 285,000 tickets sold, in addition to 14,150 admissions during the pre-opening. It is thus the second most viewed Biennale Architettura in history, conceived by curator Lesley Lokko to be the first Architecture exhibition to focus on Africa and its diaspora, on a culture defined by the Curator as "fluid and intertwined of people of African descent that today embraces the world," on the themes of decolonization and decarbonization. Young people and students made up 38% of the overall number of visits. Group visits account for 23% of the total audience, with 76% being groups of students and/or university students. This figure represents an exhibition that was particularly focused on the exchange of ideas and the transmission of knowledge, emphasizing the phenomenon of group visits made up of students and university students, in a record that recorded three times as many group presences as the previous edition. "The exhibition has drawn the world's attention to many critical issues arising from recent history, according to the Biennale's president, Roberto Cicutto. "The themes of decolonization and decarbonization have expanded to many aspects of civil society, even in those countries that seemed to be'sheltered' or less exposed to it," Cicutto said. Lesley accepted the challenge posed by a college that gathered fifteen tutors and 49 students from all over the world in Venice to confront a shared introspection that is already impacting the field of architecture education."