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Today, the felling of urban trees sparks protests and reflections on climate, memory, and quality of life. In this interview, Jūratė Tutlytė explains how the Lithuania Pavilion at the 2025 Biennale explores the dialogue between architecture and nature.
20 November 2025
At the root of the built environment
Natural space and built space, in dialogue with the curator of the Lithuanian Pavilion
At the Lithuania Pavilion, an uprooted tree stump welcomes visitors as a symbol of urban loss. In this interview, Gintaras Balčytis explains how architecture and nature engage in a dialogue to reshape memory, space, and sustainability.
20 November 2025
Experimenting to transform the world
Models, prototypes and experimental approaches in the projects of Intelligens
At the 2025 Architecture Biennale, utopia gives way to empiricism: Venice becomes a laboratory of prototypes, measurements and shared processes. The project does not promise solutions; it experiments, records and adjusts — a new operational grammar for cities in transformation.
20 November 2025
Final stage
Highlights of the closing week of Intelligens
The microcosm of pavilions, exhibitions and collateral events that has animated the 19th International Architecture Exhibition is heading toward its 23 November finale. Ahead of the finissage, here is a selection of unmissable appointments.
18 November 2025
Modern ecology
Maria Kuptsova and the manifesto for the “cultivation” of materials
ARBOR.Pilae by Maria Kuptsova transforms wood into a bio-artificial matter capable of growing, recording, and regenerating. An organic and cybernetic device that simulates a tree and proposes a new culture of materials: not consumed, but cultivated.
18 November 2025
Volcanic revolution
From Iceland, a vision shaped by science and civic imagination
Iceland’s project reimagines lava as a building resource. Through scientific simulations and experimental materials, the installation envisions a future where communities and nature co-create resilient infrastructures.
18 November 2025
Ways of living
A living archive of materials that turns matter into experience
Material Bank: Matters Make Sense by Politecnico di Milano invites visitors to experience materials rather than simply classify them. In a sensory labyrinth, biocement, fibers, and graphene reveal how matter can “make sense,” becoming a key to rethinking ecology and architecture.
18 November 2025
A lecture on proximity
Spain reflects on its territory and on the concept of balance
Internalities rethinks the relationship between the built environment and the land: in the Spanish Pavilion, local models and materials reveal how architecture and ecologies can regain equilibrium, reducing externalities and activating closer, regenerative production cycles.
18 November 2025
Taking care
ETH Zurich, processes of ‘healing’ for architectural surfaces
A robot that doesn’t sculpt but grows matter: Geological Microbial Formations turns construction waste into new material through bacteria that mineralize and bind the grains. A slow metamorphosis where biology and technology give rise to living materials.
13 November 2025
Towards a hybrid design practice
A selection of Intelligens projects on the theme of hybrid design thinking
Intelligens overturns the myth of the solitary author: in the age of AI and complexity, the project becomes an infrastructure of interconnected intelligences – natural, artificial, and collective – where the architect acts as a director of processes, data, and relationships rather than a sole author.
13 November 2025
The passion for living
A Interiors: Saudi heritage and global design woven together in beauty
At Palazzo Mora, as part of ECC’s Time Space Existence platform, Portal by A Interiors is an invitation to travel through Saudi traditions, craftsmanship, cultural values, identity, and art. An interview with Alanoud Khalid Mishaal, founder of A Interiors.
6 November 2025
Building collective shelters
A selection of Intelligens projects on the theme of Housing and Cohabitation
Carlo Ratti invites us to rethink the concept of shelter: no longer a space of separation, but a place of cohabitation. Through multispecies ecologies, amphibious territories, and decolonial memories, the Exhibition suggests new ways to inhabit the planet’s fragility as an opportunity for coexistence.
29 October 2025
Material flows
A selection of Intelligens projects on the theme of Circular Economy
From traceability to regeneration, the 2025 Architecture Biennale rewrites the politics of materials: no longer “green” aesthetics, but circular systems that eliminate waste and generate relationships.
23 October 2025
Adapting to the changing climate
A selection of Intelligens projects on the theme of climate and ecology
“Intelligens: Towards a New Architecture of Adaptation” is the manifesto that anticipated the 19th Architecture Biennale, inviting us to rethink the role of design in an already transformed planet. Not just to mitigate, but to learn to change with the climate – to truly inhabit the present.
2 October 2025
The legacy of Intelligens
From “ghost City” to a living construction Site: Venice between memory, new architecture, and the Future
Often described as a relic in decay, Venice today reveals a different face: through restorations, new architecture, and sustainable projects, the city counters the myth of decline with tangible signs of transformation.
25 September 2025
Paradigma upcycling
CONQ: The second lives of seashells
Every year, the food industry discards over ten million tons of seashells. With the CONQ project, designers Angie Dub and Heidi Jalkhan Fratello transform them into marine bioceramics, opening up new perspectives for sustainable architecture.
24 September 2025
Living architecture
Canada lab: Building with bacteria
In a Biennale that urges architecture to mobilize all forms of intelligence to address the climate crisis, Canada’s National Participation responds to Biennale curator Carlo Ratti’s call to learn from natural systems by transforming its Pavilion into a living organism.
24 September 2025
Archives in Motion
V&A unveils the hidden side of global storage
From the new V&A East Storehouse to Liz Diller’s film, On Storage traces the hidden networks that keep goods in motion worldwide. In this interview, curator Brendan Cormier dives into how storage systems shape not just commodities, but also architecture and society.
24 September 2025
Where things go
A journey into the invisible architecture of museum storage
“On Storage”, marking the ninth consecutive collaboration between La Biennale di Venezia and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), examines the global architecture of storage systems that facilitate the movement of goods.
17 September 2025
Possible Imaginaries
Portugal Pavilion, interview with co-curator Luca Martinucci
A fragile paradise, to be rediscovered in the present. With “Paraíso, hoje.”, Portugal transforms Fondaco Marcello into a landscape suspended between reality and imagination, inviting reflection on the profound bond between architecture, territory, and community.
12 September 2025
In affinity and difference
Interview with Vladimir Belogolovsky on the project No Doubt About It
A platform-exhibition for intentionally diverse, even contradictory, architectural ideas, rich in innovation and ecological concerns, individualism and collaboration, art and pragmatism, and fundamentally free from any ideology. The ultimate goal of No Doubt About It, curated by Vladimir Belogolovsky and hosted until November 23 at the Magazzino Gallery in Palazzo Contarini Polignac, is to share, discuss, and juxtapose distinct ideas.
1 September 2025
The motion of matter
While exhibitions inform through maps and data, the cinema of Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine lets us experience: Transmutation explores European industrial sites from the inside, capturing the material, the hands that work it, and the humanity that inhabits them.
25 August 2025
My home is your home
Aurélien Lemonier and Sean Anderson on Beyti Beytak and Qatar’s vision of hospitality
At the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective – Qatar makes its official debut with Beyti Beytak, a project redefining hospitality as a cultural and political act. Curators Aurélien Lemonier and Sean Anderson reflect on shared spaces, community, and the future of the built environment between Palazzo Franchetti and the Giardini.
25 August 2025
Cyber-organic evolutions
Interview with Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, founders of ecoLogicStudio
At the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective – ecoLogicStudio presents FundamentAI, a project that turns the Venice Lagoon into a living laboratory, where biological data and artificial intelligence become tools for co-creation between the human and the non-human.
30 July 2025
Inhabiting the emergency
For Time Space Existence, three projects of space, play, and shelter
Within the diverse voices of the European Cultural Centre’s Time Space Existence, three projects at Palazzo Mora and Marinaressa Gardens stand out for addressing urgent humanitarian crises linked to displacement, inequality, and migration.
30 July 2025
Not building
The alternative future of the profession at the Hungarian Pavilion
The exhibition There Is Nothing to See Here. Export Your Knowledge! is a call to action for architecture graduates to apply their expertise beyond the construction industry.
22 July 2025
Emergency exit
The Polish Pavilion reveals an architecture of shelter, comfort, and transmission
With Lari and Penates, architecture meets ritual, threshold, and talisman. The project explores the symbolic practices that, in Poland, shape a sense of domestic safety, shifting the focus from design to lived experience, from form to the invisible power of space.
22 July 2025
A cosmology of the future
The Next Earth, shaping the architecture of the mind
At Palazzo Diedo, the exhibition The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology probes the very foundations of contemporary thought. Rather than focusing on built space, it turns its gaze to the Earth as a cognitive system, engaging with ecological crisis, cosmology, and artificial intelligence.
22 July 2025
Manifest, collective
The Architecture Lobby, rethinking a profession
If there’s one project at this Biennale that truly forces us to rethink who the architect is – or should be – it’s the installation by the collective The Architecture Lobby. A powerful critique of working conditions in the field, but also a call for solidarity and collective organization.
17 July 2025
The fine print
Transsolar on how to inhabit the world in a time of climate crisis
Based on scientific projections, the installation Terms and Conditions at the Architecture Biennale (Arsenale) stages a 42°C Venice, confronting visitors with urgent questions about our growing dependence on technological solutions and the environmental inequality that comes with it. We spoke with Jochen Lam, Melis Özalp, and Alina Wagner from the German firm Transsolar.
10 July 2025
The Word and the Action
The Holy See’s project reopens the doors of Santa Maria Ausiliatrice
A building in repair and a community coming back together. The Pavilion of the Holy See at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale presents a process, rather than a mere exhibition: a gesture of openness and care, a laboratory of collective intelligence unfolding over time and space, in the vibrant heart of the Castello district, within the Santa Maria Ausiliatrice complex.
10 July 2025
Plural architecture
Marina Otero Verzier and Giovanna Zabotti on the Pavilion of the Holy See Pavilion
Opera Aperta, the Holy See Pavilion’s project for the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, transforms the Santa Maria Ausiliatrice Complex into a participatory architecture site. Curators Marina Otero Verzier and Giovanna Zabotti discuss restoration, responsibility, and community.
25 June 2025
To show and amaze
SMAC, a new player in the city’s contemporary scene
A new cultural hub in the heart of Venice has opened its doors to contemporary art and design thinking. With a program that weaves together architecture, design, fashion, and cinema, SMAC – San Marco Art Centre – launched in May at the Procuratie Vecchie with two outstanding exhibitions.
25 June 2025
The turning point
Jean Michel Jarre, from the Biennale Architettura to St. Mark Square
In this interview, the composer spoke to us about his involvement in Carlo Ratti’s Biennale, the concert he will perform in Piazza San Marco on July 3, and his relationship with Venice.
18 June 2025
Shaping lava
Icelandic Pavilion, architecture in synergy with geological forces
With Lavaforming, Iceland brings a visionary experiment to the Biennale: using lava as a building material, turning a threat into a resource. We spoke with curator Arnhildur Pálmadóttir.
10 June 2025
Behind the Exhibition
Constructing the Biennale: history, networks, and invisible processes
Michele Bonino and Camilla Forina (DAD – PoliTo) present the installation on the façade of the Central Pavilion at the Giardini – a visual investigation that combines data, design, and ethnographic research.
5 June 2025
Memories of the future
Liam Young on a post-fossil era: ruins, AI, and radical imagination
Science fiction, architecture, and activism come together in After the End, the new project by the filmmaker and speculative architect who challenges us to rethink the world after fossil fuels. The stunning visuals from After the End also inspired our choice for the cover of the latest issue of VeNews.
28 May 2025
(In)visible truths
Rem Koolhaas at Fondazione Prada with Diagrams
Ca’ Corner della Regina reopens with Diagrams. A project by AMO/OMA, an exhibition that questions the neutrality of visual information and its impact on the major issues of our time. At its core: the diagram as a tool for knowledge, persuasion, and critique.
28 May 2025
Welcome to the Machine
The second act of Fondation Cartier and Jean Nouvel unveiled at the Fondazione Cini
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain once again entrusts architect Jean Nouvel with the design of a second venue near the Louvre, spectacularly presented in the Collateral Event of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain by Jean Nouvel.
28 May 2025
Shaping the Future
Sanlorenzo Arts sets anchor in Venice
Sanlorenzo opens its first permanent space dedicated to contemporary art in Venice. From June 3, 2025, in the restored rooms of a historic palazzo near the Salute, Sanlorenzo Arts comes to life: a cultural centre for exhibitions, talks, residencies, and educational projects, inaugurated on the occasion of The Venice Boat Show and the Venice Climate Week.
21 May 2025
Lagoon Coffee
Diller Scofidio + Renfro turn lagoon water into coffee
Half experimental café, half ecological lab, Canal Café filters Venice’s brackish water to brew an espresso that tells the story of the city—blending nature, technology, and urban memory.
21 May 2025
Legacy in evolution
A-Interiors, a multisensory journey through Saudi cultural identity
At Palazzo Mora, as part of Time Space Existence, a path of symbolic portals weaves together memory, craftsmanship, and innovation in an immersive narrative of resilience and renewal.
21 May 2025
Shape and essence
At Palazzo Bembo, the symbiotic architectures of Henriquez Partners Architects
For Time Space Existence, the Canadian architecture studio presents 3D-printed sculptures inspired by Symplasma glass sponges (Hexactinellida), reimagined as visionary models for new towers in Vancouver – set in an ideal dialogue with Canaletto’s paintings and the Venetian lagoon landscape.
21 May 2025
Collective Interest
Time Space Existence: Architecture as a regenerative act
The European Cultural Centre renews its presence at the Architecture Biennale with Time Space Existence. We spoke with Rachele De Stefano, project leader for architecture, to learn more about the visions, challenges, and perspectives of this year’s edition.
21 May 2025
So far, yet so close
Macao’s cities within a city
The collateral event Parallel Worlds, held at Campo della Tana, delves into the layered nature – temporal, geographical, and social – of Macao’s urban fabric.
21 May 2025
Back to the roots
Lithuania explores the relationship between architecture and urban nature
A powerful image welcomes visitors at the entrance to the Lithuanian space at the Ospedaletto Complex: an uprooted tree stump, bare and wounded. It stands as a tangible symbol of what so often vanishes silently from our urban landscapes—not just trees, but also memory, identity, and continuity.
15 May 2025
The Awards of the 19th Biennale Architettura
The Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement and best participants
The international jury selected by Carlo Ratti has awarded the prizes for this edition of the Architecture Biennale, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. The award ceremony also included the presentation of Lifetime Achievement awards to Donna Haraway and Italo Rota (in memoriam).
14 May 2025
Towards the Biocene
Italo Rota’s luminous and radical vision
A lover of colour and of the eccentric and an avid collector of kitsch and manga, Rota was a visionary who asked architecture to reinvent itself, to experiment and to go beyond its known territories.
14 May 2025
Inhabiting the Earth
Donna Haraway, thought is architecture
The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Donna Haraway and her thought on humanity, coexistence and the Planet celebrates architecture as an open work, capable of building ecologies and elaborating different kinds of survival intelligence.
14 May 2025
A changing Planet
Interview with Carlo Ratti
The heart of the 2025 Architecture Biennale takes shape at the Arsenale’s Corderie and the Giardini, with an exhibition itinerary built around the different types of intelligence evoked in the title: natural, artificial, and collective. We discuss it with curator Carlo Ratti.
25 March 2025
Architecture Biennale, a look at the Pavilions/2
Brazil, UAE, Germany, Iceland, Turkey, Uzbekistan
National Pavilions have been encouraged by curator Carlo Ratti to respond to the motto One Place, One Solution and to maintain a goal of a circular economy. How are different countries responding?
































































































































































































































































































