Lares et Penates: On Building a Sense of Security in Architecture Inside the Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Lares et Penates explores how architecture can restore a sense of safety — not only through structure and regulation, but through rituals, symbols and everyday gestures of
Between Weight and Lightness: The Acts of (Re)Intervention At the 2025 Venice Biennale, the Brazilian Pavilion presents (Re)Intervention: a two-act exhibition exploring design’s past and future through material reuse, critical reflection, and the vision of a sustainable, ever-evolving design culture.
IntelligensHistorica: the Greek Pavilion on Memory and Reuse At the 19th Venice Biennale, the Greek Pavilion IntelligensHistorica presents twin projects on the neglected Venetian shipyards of Heraklion and Chania. The design proposes reversible reuse with flexible materials, highlighting how heritage can be
Fr(Agile) Systems: A Suspended Fragility at the Pakistan Pavilion At the Pakistan Pavilion, Fr(Agile) Systems confronts the country’s acute climatic and social fragility. Through suspended salt structures, the installation exposes systemic imbalances and calls for an equitable global response.
Material Bank: Matters Make Sense In this interview, Ingrid Maria Paoletti, one of the main curators, guides us to discover Material Bank: Matters Make Sense, a section presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.
Building Biospheres. Interview with the curator Bas Smets In this interview, inside the Belgian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Bas Smets describes how he and plant neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso have reimagined a 1907 exhibition hall as a working climate prototype.
A Visit to Chidori Bunka with Dot Architects in Osaka’s Kitakagaya District An interview with Wataru Doi of Dot Architects, in which we visit Osaka’s Kitakagaya district and explore Chidori Bunka—now on view in the "Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture" exhibition at Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio.
Internalities. Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium Pavilion of Spain — Biennale Architettura 2025 At the 19th Venice Biennale, the Spanish pavilion Internalities overturns the logic of environmental externalities: an exhibition in five sections that proposes architecture capable of decarbonising the built environment, redefining production and
Make Do With Now: interview with the curator Yuma Shinohara In this interview, curator Yuma Shinohara offers an in-depth look at Make Do With Now. New Directions in Japanese Architecture, on view at the Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio. Through his words, we explore how a new generation of architects is
SIA: quale lezione trarre dalle dimissioni di Peter Dransfeld? Volevamo sapere di più sulle dimissioni di Peter Dransfeld dalla presidenza della SIA e sulle conseguenze. Abbiamo parlato con Alain Oulevey (vicepresidente della Sia) e Christoph Starck (direttore della SIA).
