ArchDaily Interviews From the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale as the Exhibition Enters Its Final Week

"As the 19th International Architecture Exhibition enters its final week before closing on November 23, the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale offers a lens through which to revisit the ideas and experiments that have shaped this year's global architectural conversation. Curated by Carlo Ratti under the theme "Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.", the Biennale brings together more than 750 participants across national pavilions, collateral events, and city-wide installations."

"During the opening days of the six-month exhibition, ArchDaily conducted a series of on-site interviews that capture the range of perspectives shaping this year's edition. Conversations with the team behind the Belgian Pavilion, Søren Pihlmann of the Danish Pavilion, Andrea Faraguna of the Bahrain Pavilion, and the curators of the Lebanese and British Pavilions offer insight into how each approached the Biennale's themes from distinct cultural, geographic, and disciplinary contexts."

"Together, these interviews trace a broad spectrum of positions, from working with natural intelligence and circular material strategies to examining landscapes of memory, extraction, and repair, highlighting how practitioners are expanding the tools, responsibilities, and imaginaries that define contemporary architectural practice."

Curated under the theme "Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.", the Biennale gathers over 750 participants across national pavilions, collateral events, and city-wide installations. The edition frames interconnected forms of intelligence and examines architecture's role in navigating climatic instability, evolving technologies, and emerging collaborative practices. On-site interviews with pavilion curators reveal a spectrum of approaches: natural intelligence and circular material strategies, landscapes of memory, extraction, and repair, and small-scale responses to climate challenges. The exhibition surfaces notable national contributions, interrogates curatorial ambitions and limitations, and expands tools, responsibilities, and imaginaries defining contemporary architectural practice.

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