BIENNALE

ARCHITETTURA
2021
As it was for everyone, the 2020 was the year of Covid-19 The theme of this Biennale Architettura is its title and the
also for La Biennale di Venezia, but we like to remember title is an open question.
the great show of strength the Institution managed to How: Speaks to practical approaches and concrete
muster by turning to its own resources and putting into solutions, highlighting the primacy of problem-solving in
play its extraordinary ability to react to the unforeseen architectural thinking.
and the unthinkable, also thanks to the fundamental Will: Signals looking toward the future but also seeking
collaboration with national and local Authorities. We open vision and determination, drawing from the power of the
the Giardini and Arsenale with an even greater awareness architectural imaginary.
of just how much the work of La Biennale mirrors the We: Is first person plural and thus inclusive of other
contemporary world, which is here interpreted and peoples, of other species, appealing to a more empathetic
sometimes foreshadowed by the proposals put forward understanding of architecture.
by the curators and those who participate with their own Live: Means not simply to exist but to thrive, to flourish,
work. The query in the title How will we live together? has to inhabit, and to express life, tapping into architecture’s
largely been seen as prophetic, and came well before the inherent optimism.
pandemic. 126 years of La Biennale history demonstrates Together: Implies collectives, commons, universal values,
how its contemporaneity goes well beyond the forms of highlighting architecture as a collective form and a form of
art it represents, welcoming the teaching, thought, and collective expression.
provocation of artists from every corner of the world. ?: Indicates an open question, not a rhetorical one, looking
There are those who do not consider Architecture an for (many) answers, celebrating the plurality of values in and
art, or who at most define it an ‘applied art’. Architecture, through architecture.
however, just like other artistic expressions, finds its raison We are asking architects this question because we believe
d’être in the profound ties it shares with life and society, they have the ability to present more inspiring answers than
when, through creative synthesis, it is able to represent all politics has been thus far offering in much of the world.
aspects of human living. We are asking architects because we, as architects, are
Roberto Cicutto preoccupied with shaping the spaces in which people live
President of La Biennale di Venezia together and because we frequently imagine these settings
differently than do the social norms that dictate them.
Hashim Sarkis
Curator of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition
GENERAL SAFETY ANTI COVID-19 MEASURES
FOR BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2021*

La Biennale di Venezia is following the evolution Entrance and exit

of the ongoing Coronavirus health emergency All the venues hosting the International
with the greatest attention and, in accordance Exhibition, the Collateral Events and
with the competent authorities, has prepared all the National Pavilions guarantee
an anti-Covid-19. a separate entrance and exit system.
Temperature checking There is a one-way exhibition route to
minimize the possible clustering and
The main accesses of Arsenale and Giardini
gathering of visitors. In particular the
Exhibition area, is equipped with thermo
Arsenale entrance is at Calle della Tana
scanners measuring temperature of the visitors
and the exit at Giardino delle Vergini,
before entering the premises. According to the
by means of Ponte dei Pensieri.
Anti Covid-19 protocols, no one having 37.5°C
or more as temperature must be allowed to enter.
Hands Sanitation Tracing access and ticketing reservation
Visitors have to use hydroalcoholic solutions for Ticketing to visit the Exhibition is exclusively
washing hands, before entering the Exhibition online, in order to any queues and gathering of
venue. people. All visitors are traced inside the venue.
The access to the venue is guarantee to a limited
Compulsory Masks
number of visitors defined by La Biennale
Masks have to be used during the visit and in referring to the characteristics of the exhibition
all indoor and outdoor spaces. venue, the dimension of the internal routes,
Social distancing inside the venues presence of accessible installation etc.
A protocol implying social distancing is in place
for all activities: walk-in installations, meetings
and seminars, bookshop, bar and restaurants
etc. This reduces the number of visitors allowed
inside the exhibition venues in order to guarantee
the safe distance needed. Inside the venues and
during the visit people have to keep the social
distancing defined in at least 1 meter.

* measures adopted by the date 19.05

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1 Han Tümertekin
2 ELEMENTAL
(Alejandro Aravena;
Victor Oddó; Gonzalo Arteaga; Diego
Torres; Juan Cerda) 6
7
3 Vogt Landscape Architects SI1 8

(Günther Vogt)
EDU CN
4 WOJR 2
(William O’Brien Jr.) S
C First Floor D2 UZ 3
5 Studio Ossidiana SG S ITALIA 4
(Giovanni Bellotti; Alessandra Covini) TR
6 Igneous Tectonics TH LU PE 5
(Cristina Parreño; Sergio Araya)
MX
7 NADAAA 1 CL
PAA SA AR
(Nader Tehrani; Arthur Chang) IE
AE
8 Sahel Alhiyari Architects EDU
KS
SI1 Special Event KW
Vuslat Foundation, BH
Giuseppe Penone EE
LV HR
SI AL
PH
P

D1 EDU

GIARDINI

ACTV Stop
Arsenale

Special Project Participanting Countries

 Entrance

Exit PAA Pavilion of Applied Arts AL Albania KW Kuwait

La Biennale di Venezia SA Saudi Arabia LV Latvia
P Press Office with Victoria and Albert AR Argentina MX Mexico
Museum BH Kingdom of Bahrain PE Peru
First Aid
CL Chile SG Singapore
AED 23.07 – 1.08 CN People’s Republic of China SI Republic of Slovenia
D1 Biennale Danza HR Croatia TH Thailand
EDU Biennale Educational NOT ONCE AE United Arab Emirates TR Turkey
S Biennale Sessions Mikhail Baryshnikov; EE Estonia UZ Republic of Uzbekistan
Jan Fabre PH Philippines
C Biennale College D2 Biennale Danza LU Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
TOM IE Ireland
Edison Mobile Recharge point 
Wilkie Branson ITALIA Italy
KS Republic of Kosovo
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AMONG AS NEW AS EMERGING
DIVERSE BEINGS HOUSEHOLDS COMMUNITIES
DESIGNING CATERING TO APPEALING COMING TOGETHER
FOR NEW BODIES NEW DEMOGRAPHICS TO CIVICNESS IN VENICE
1 Peju Alatise 14 OPAFORM architects 37 Cohabitation Strategies 59 studio L A
2 Ani Liu (Marina Bauer; Espen Folgerø) (Lucia Babina, Emiliano Gandolfi, (Lorien Beijaert; Arna Mačkić
3 Azra Akšamija 15 Leopold Banchini Architects Gabriela Rendón, Miguel Robles-Durán) in collaboration with Baukje Trenning)
4 modem (with Lukas Feireiss and Dylan 38 Fieldoffice Architects C1 Nicholas de Monchaux; Kathryn Moll;
(Nicholas de Monchaux; Kathryn Moll) Perrenoud) (Huang Sheng-Yuan) Sandro Bisà; modem; Bisà Associati
5 Allan Wexler Studio 16 K63.STUDIO (Osborne Macharia) 39 Storia Na Lugar with catalogtree and University
17 Superflux (Anab Jain; Jon Ardern) (Patti Anahory; of Virginia Venice Program
18 AW-ARCH Cesar Schofield Cardoso) C2 Laura Fregolent, Università Iuav
LIVING WITH (Alex Anmahian, Nick Winton) 40 Arquitectura Expandida di Venezia; Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli,
OTHER BEINGS 19 line+ studio (Fanhao Meng) (Ana López Ortego; Harold Guyaux; MIT
6 Refik Anadol Studio 20 leonmarcial arquitectos Felipe González González;
and Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil (Alexia Leon; Lucho Marcial) Viviana Parada Camargo) S5 STATION: Rafi Segal, MIT Future
7 Studio Ossidiana 21 ecoLogicStudio 41 Lacol Urban Collective Lab; Sarah Williams,
(Giovanni Bellotti; Alessandra Covini) (Claudia Pasquero; Marco Poletto) (Ariadna Artigas; Mirko Gegundez; MIT Civic Data Design Lab at MIT
8 Lucy McRae Lali Daví; Pol Massoni; Anna Clemente; Venice LAB; with Greg Lindsay,
22 Atelier RITA
Cristina Gamboa; Núria Vila; Jordi Marisa Morán Jahn, Studio REV-
9 Parsons & Charlesworth (Valentine Guichardaz-Versini)
Miró; Ernest Garriga; Eliseu Arrufat;
(Tim Parsons; Jessica Charlesworth) 23 ROJO / FERNÁNDEZ-SHAW, Laura Lluch; Lluc Hernandez; Arnau
10 Studio Libertiny (Tomáš Libertíny) arquitectos Andrés; Carles Baiges) CO-HABITATS:
11 MAEID [Büro für Architektur (Begoña Fernández-Shaw; Luis Rojo)
42 Enlace Arquitectura (Elisa Silva) HOW WE DO LIVE
und transmediale Kunst] 24 THE OPEN WORKSHOP
(Daniela Mitterberger; Tiziano Derme) (Neeraj Bhatia; Antje Steinmuller)
43 raumlaborberlin TOGETHER IN . . .
(Andrea Hofmann; Axel Timm; C3 NIGERIA / EGYPT / MEXICO:
12 The Living (David Benjamin ) Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius; Christof Kent Larson; Gabriela Bila Advincula
13 Philip Beesley & Living Architecture
Systems Group / University of
INHABITING Mayer; Florian Stirnemann; Francesco et al.; MIT
Apuzzo; Frauke Gerstenberg;
Waterloo School of Architecture NEW TECTONICS Jan Liesegang; Markus Bader)
C4 ADDIS ABABA: Marc Angélil; ETH
25 NADAAA Zurich; Dirk Hebel; KIT Karlsruhe;
44 PRÁCTICA Bisrat Kifle Woldeyessus; EiABC et al.
S1 STATION: Matilde Cassani, (Nader Tehrani; Arthur Chang) (Jaime Daroca Guerrero;
26 Achim Menges / ICD University C5 SÃO PAULO: Daniel Talesnik;
Architectural Association; José Mayoral Moratilla; José Ramón
of Stuttgart and Jan Knippers / Andres Lepik; Architekturmuseum
Ignacio G. Galán, Barnard College, Sierra Gómez de León)
ITKE University of Stuttgart der TUM et al.
Columbia University; Ivan L. Munuera,
Princeton University; Joel Sanders, (Achim Menges; Jan Knippers) C6 AL AZRAQ CAMP: Azra Akšamija;
Yale University 27 Gramazio Kohler Architects / RE-EQUIPPING Melina Philippou; MIT et al.
S2 STATION: David Gissen, Parsons NCCR DFAB SOCIETY C7 INDIA: Rahul Mehrotra; Sourav Kumar
School of Design/The New (Fabio Gramazio; Matthias Kohler) Biswas; GSD, Harvard University
45 Aristide Antonas with Elina Axioti;
School University; Jennifer Stager, C8 BEIRUT: Sandra Frem, American
Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest
Johns Hopkins University; University of Beirut; Boulos Douaihy
and Mantha Zarmakoupi, LIVING APART 46 EFFEKT (Sinus Lynge; Tue Foged) et al.
University of Pennsylvania TOGETHER 47 atelier masōmī (Mariam Kamara) C9 RIO DE JANEIRO: Farès el-Dahdah;
48 Manuel Herz Architects Alida Metcalf; Rice University;
28 Fernanda Canales
and Iwan Baan David Heyman; Axis Maps; Sergio
29 Aires Mateus
49 MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste Burgi; Instituto Moreira Salles et al.
(Francisco Aires Mateus;
Manuel Aires Mateus) 50 TUMO Center for Creative C10 PRISHTINA: Bekim Ramku;
Technologies Kosovo Architecture Foundation /
30 Alison Brooks Architects
(Marie Lou Papazian; Pegor Papazian) OUD+Architects et al.
31 LIN Architects Urbanists
51 Miralles Tagliabue EMBT C11 HONG KONG: Merve Bedir;
(Finn Geipel)
(Benedetta Tagliabue) Hong Kong University;
32 BAAG Buenos Aires Arquitectura
52 Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Sampson Wong
Grupal (Griselda Balian; Gastón
Noriega; Gabriel Monteleone) 53 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill C12 NEW YORK: Nora Akaw et al.;
(Colin Koop) The Cooper Union
33 Farshid Moussavi Architecture
54 Michael Maltzan Architecture
34 nicolas laisné architectes
55 Sean Lally
35 Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture
56 BASE studio
36 SsD (Jinhee Park)
(Barbara Barreda; Felipe Sepulveda)
57 OMA (Reinier de Graaf)
S3 STATION: Mark Jarzombek and
58 doxiadis+ (Thomas Doxiadis)
Vikramaditya Prakash, The Global
Architectural History Teaching
Collaborative (GAHTC) at MIT
with Vikramaditya Prakash,
Architecture Uncertainty Lab (A(U)L)
at MIT Venice LAB and University
of Washington
S4 STATION: Abalos+Sentkiewicz AS+;
Iñaki Ábalos; Renata Sentkiewicz,
Harvard University and Escuela
Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
C11
de Madrid C6 C12
STATION: Anne Kockelkorn
and Susanne Schindler, C10
Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) C9
in History and Theory of Architecture
C5 C8
at ETH Zurich
STATION: Daisy Ames, Bernadette C4
C7
Baird-Zars, Adam Frampton, C3
Columbia GSAPP Housing Lab 59

C1
C2

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S1 1 2 3 6 7 8 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 25 26 28 29 30 S4 31 32 S5 37 38 39 45 46 47 48 49 50

S2 4 5 9 10 11 12 13 S3 21 22 23 24 27 33 34 35 36 40 41 42 43 44 51 52 53 54 55 56 57
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AMONG
DIVERSE BEINGS
DESIGNING LIVING WITH S1
STATION: Matilde Cassani, Architectural
FOR NEW BODIES OTHER BEINGS Association; Ignacio G. Galán,
1 Peju Alatise 6 Refik Anadol Studio Barnard College, Columbia University;
2 Ani Liu and Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil Ivan L. Munuera, Princeton University;
3 Azra Akšamija 7 Studio Ossidiana Joel Sanders, Yale University
4 modem (Giovanni Bellotti; Alessandra Covini) S2 STATION: David Gissen, Parsons School
(Nicholas de Monchaux; Kathryn Moll) 8 Lucy McRae of Design/The New School University;
9 Parsons & Charlesworth Jennifer Stager, Johns Hopkins University;
5 Allan Wexler Studio
(Tim Parsons; Jessica Charlesworth) and Mantha Zarmakoupi, University
of Pennsylvania
10 Studio Libertiny (Tomáš Libertíny)
11 MAEID
[Büro für Architektur und transmediale
Kunst] (Daniela Mitterberger;
Tiziano Derme)
12 The Living
(David Benjamin )
13 Philip Beesley & Living Architecture
Systems Group / University of Waterloo
School of Architecture

2 3
8
S1 7

1 6 11

S2 4 5 9 10 12
CORDERIE – A RTIGLIERIE
AS NEW
HOUSEHOLDS
CATERING TO INHABITING S3
STATION: Mark Jarzombek and Vikramaditya
NEW DEMOGRAPHICS NEW TECTONICS Prakash, The Global Architectural History
14 OPAFORM architects 25 NADAAA Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC) at MIT
(Marina Bauer; Espen Folgerø) (Nader Tehrani; Arthur Chang) with Vikramaditya Prakash, Architecture
15 Leopold Banchini Architects 26 Achim Menges / ICD University Uncertainty Lab
(with Lukas Feireiss and Dylan Perrenoud) of Stuttgart and Jan Knippers / (A(U)L) at MIT Venice LAB and University
16 K63.STUDIO (Osborne Macharia) ITKE University of Stuttgart of Washington
17 Superflux (Anab Jain; Jon Ardern) (Achim Menges; Jan Knippers) S4 STATION: Abalos+Sentkiewicz AS+; Iñaki
27 Gramazio Kohler Architects / Ábalos; Renata Sentkiewicz, Harvard
18 AW-ARCH
NCCR DFAB University and Escuela Técnica Superior
(Alex Anmahian, Nick Winton)
(Fabio Gramazio; Matthias Kohler) de Arquitectura de Madrid
19 line+ studio (Fanhao Meng)
STATION: Anne Kockelkorn
20 leonmarcial arquitectos
and Susanne Schindler, Master
(Alexia Leon; Lucho Marcial) LIVING APART of Advanced Studies (MAS) in History
21 ecoLogicStudio TOGETHER and Theory of Architecture
(Claudia Pasquero; Marco Poletto) 28 Fernanda Canales at ETH Zurich
22 Atelier RITA 29 Aires Mateus STATION: Daisy Ames, Bernadette
(Valentine Guichardaz-Versini) (Francisco Aires Mateus; Baird-Zars, Adam Frampton,
23 ROJO / FERNÁNDEZ-SHAW, arquitectos Manuel Aires Mateus) Columbia GSAPP Housing Lab
(Begoña Fernández-Shaw; Luis Rojo) 30 Alison Brooks Architects
24 THE OPEN WORKSHOP 31 LIN Architects Urbanists
(Neeraj Bhatia; Antje Steinmuller) (Finn Geipel)
32 BAAG Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal
(Griselda Balian; Gastón Noriega; Gabriel
Monteleone)
33 Farshid Moussavi Architecture
34 nicolas laisné architectes
35 Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture
36 SsD (Jinhee Park)

18
17 19 25 32
15 16 20 28 30 S4 31

26

14
29

24

S3 21 22 33 34 35 36
27
23
CORDERIE – A RTIGLIERIE
AS EMERGING
COMMUNITIES
APPEALING RE-EQUIPPING CO-HABITATS:
TO CIVICNESS SOCIETY HOW WE DO LIVE TOGETHER IN . . .
37 Cohabitation Strategies 45 Aristide Antonas with Elina Axioti; Mona C3 NIGERIA / EGYPT / MEXICO:
(Lucia Babina, Emiliano Gandolfi, Mahall and Asli Serbest Kent Larson; Gabriela Bila Advincula et al.;
Gabriela Rendón, Miguel Robles-Durán) 46 EFFEKT MIT
38 Fieldoffice Architects (Sinus Lynge; Tue Foged) C4 ADDIS ABABA: Marc Angélil; ETH Zurich;
(Huang Sheng-Yuan) 47 atelier masōmī Dirk Hebel; KIT Karlsruhe; Bisrat Kifle
39 Storia Na Lugar (Mariam Kamara) Woldeyessus; EiABC et al.
(Patti Anahory; Cesar Schofield Cardoso) 48 Manuel Herz Architects C5 SÃO PAULO: Daniel Talesnik;
40 Arquitectura Expandida and Iwan Baan Andres Lepik; Architekturmuseum
(Ana López Ortego; Harold Guyaux; 49 MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste der TUM et al.
Felipe González González; 50 TUMO Center for Creative Technologies C6 AL AZRAQ CAMP: Azra Akšamija;
Viviana Parada Camargo) (Marie Lou Papazian; Pegor Papazian) Melina Philippou; MIT et al.
41 Lacol 51 Miralles Tagliabue EMBT C7 INDIA: Rahul Mehrotra; Sourav Kumar
(Ariadna Artigas; Mirko Gegundez; (Benedetta Tagliabue) Biswas; GSD, Harvard University
Lali Daví; Pol Massoni; Anna Clemente; 52 Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec C8 BEIRUT: Sandra Frem, American University
Cristina Gamboa; Núria Vila; Jordi Miró; of Beirut; Boulos Douaihy et al.
53 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Ernest Garriga; Eliseu Arrufat; Laura Lluch; C9 RIO DE JANEIRO: Farès el-Dahdah; Alida
(Colin Koop)
Lluc Hernandez; Arnau Andrés; Metcalf; Rice University; David Heyman;
54 Michael Maltzan Architecture
Carles Baiges) Axis Maps; Sergio Burgi; Instituto Moreira
55 Sean Lally
42 Enlace Arquitectura (Elisa Silva) Salles et al.
56 BASE studio
43 raumlaborberlin C10 PRISHTINA: Bekim Ramku;
(Barbara Barreda; Felipe Sepulveda)
(Andrea Hofmann; Axel Timm; Benjamin Kosovo Architecture Foundation /
57 OMA
Foerster-Baldenius; Christof Mayer; Florian OUD+Architects et al.
(Reinier de Graaf)
Stirnemann; Francesco Apuzzo; Frauke C11 HONG KONG: Merve Bedir;
Gerstenberg; Jan Liesegang; Markus Bader) 58 doxiadis+
Hong Kong University; Sampson Wong
(Thomas Doxiadis)
44 PRÁCTICA C12 NEW YORK: Nora Akaw et al.;
(Jaime Daroca Guerrero; José Mayoral The Cooper Union
Moratilla; José Ramón Sierra Gómez de León) COMING TOGETHER
IN VENICE
59 studio L A
(Lorien Beijaert; Arna Mačkić
in collaboration with Baukje Trenning)
C1 Nicholas de Monchaux; Kathryn Moll; C12 C11
Sandro Bisà; modem; Bisà Associati
with catalogtree and University
of Virginia Venice Program
C6 C10
C2 Laura Fregolent, Università Iuav
C9
di Venezia; Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, MIT

S5 STATION: Rafi Segal, MIT Future C5

C8
Urban Collective Lab; Sarah Williams,
MIT Civic Data Design Lab at MIT
Venice LAB; with Greg Lindsay, C4
Marisa Morán Jahn, Studio REV-
C7

C3

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C2

C2

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S5 39 46 48 49

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1 Le Consortium–Land
(Franck Gautherot; Seungduk Kim;
Catherine Bonnotte; Géraldine
Minet) in collaboration AT
RS
with Patrick Berger, Aristide
Antonas, Junya Ishigami
EG
2 Matilde Cassani; Ignacio G. Galan; B
Ivan L. Munuera
SI3 SPORT PLATFORM:
P.VE
Architekt Christoph Lechner
& Partners
BR
PL

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EDU
RO
SI3
HU

NL FI
IL
GR
2
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US AU
BE
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FR
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DK

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JP
CH RU
CA
DE
KR

ACTV Stop ACTV Stop

Giardini Giardini Biennale

Participanting Countries
Entrance

Exit AU Australia P.N. Nordic Countries   Book Pavilion

AT Austria (Finland, Norway, Sweden) Golden Lion
First Aid BE Belgium P.VE Padiglione Venezia for Lifetime Achievement
BR Brazil PL Poland Rafael Moneo
AED
CA Canada KR Republic of Korea
EDU Biennale Educational DK Denmark RO Romania
EG Egypt RU Russia
S Biennale Sessions FI Finland RS Serbia
SP Stirling Pavilion – Book Pavilion FR France ES Spain
DE Germany US United States of America
R Rolex Pavilion JP Japan CH Switzerland
GB Great Britain HU Hungary
Edison Mobile Recharge point
GR Greece UY Uruguay
B Biennale Library-ASAC  IL Israel
NL The Netherlands
CENTRAL PAVILION

ACROSS AS
BORDERS ONE PLANET
PROTECTING TRANSCENDING SEEKING SI2 Collective Exhibition Within
GLOBAL COMMONS THE URBAN-RURAL REFUGE Exhibition Future Assembly (Caroline
A. Jones, Hadeel Ibrahim, Kumi
1 Dan Majka & Gary Setzer DIVIDE 22 Decolonizing Architecture Naidoo, Mariana Mazzucato, Mary
2 Studio Tomás Saraceno 15 Dogma (Martino Tattara; Art Residency Robinson, Olafur Eliasson, Paola
3 GFA Pier Vittorio Aureli) (Alessandro Petti; Sandi Hilal) Antonelli, Sebastian Behmann)
(Guillermo Fernández-Abascal; 16 Rural Urban Framework 23 Wissam Chaaya
Urtzi Grau) (Joshua Bolchover; John Lin) 24 Forensic Oceanography
4 Monsoon Assemblages and 17 Studio Paola Viganò (Charles Heller; Lorenzo Pezzani) MAKING WORLDS
Office of Experiments 18 Paula Nascimento SI1 Michal Rovner
(Lindsay Bremner; Neal White) 27 Cave_bureau
5 John Palmesino; Ann-Sofi Rönnskog;
19 Smout Allen (Laura Allen; RE-SOURCING (Karanja Kabage; Stella Mutegi)
Mark Smout; Geoff Manaugh)
Territorial Agency RESOURCES 28 TVK (Pierre Alain Trévelo;
6 Pinar Yoldas 25 Chair of Günther Vogt ETH Zürich Antoine Viger-Kohler)
7 Giuditta Vendrame LINKING THE LEVANT 26 Olalekan Jeyifous and Mpho Matsipa 29 Plan B Architecture & Urbanism
8 Self-Assembly Lab (Skylar Tibbits; 20 Foundation for Achieving (Joyce Hsiang; Bimal Mendis)
Jared Laucks; Schendy Kernizan) Seamless Territory (FAST); SI3 SPORT PLATFORM: Architekt 30 Christina Agapakis,
9 Somatic Collaborative Malkit Shoshan Christoph Lechner & Partners Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg &
(Anthony Acciavatti; Felipe Correa; 21 AAU ANASTAS S1 STATION: Viviana d’Auria, Sissel Tolaas
Devin Dobrowolski) (Elias Anastas; Yousef Anastas) KU LEUVEN 31 Daniel López-Pérez; Reiser +
10 ACASA GRINGO S2 STATION: Justinien Tribillon, Umemoto; Princeton University
CARDIA DESIGN The Bartlett School of Planning School of Architecture
(Gringo Cardia with AIKAX, 32 S.E.L (Verena Paravel;
Takumã Kuikuro, and People’s Palace Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Projects, Paul Heritage)
11 La Minga (Pablo Escudero)
12 Atelier Marko Brajovic
DESIGNING FOR
(Marko Brajovic; Bruno Bezerra) CLIMATE CHANGE
13 UNLESS 33 Kei Kaihoh Architects
(Giulia Foscari Widmann Rezzonico) 34 DESIGN EARTH
14 Lateral Office and Arctic Design (Rania Ghosn; El Hadi Jazairy)
Group (Mason White; Lola Sheppard; 35 OOZE and Marjetica Potrč;
Leena Cho; Matthew Jull) Eva Pfannes; Sylvain Hartenberg;
Marjetica Potrč

NETWORKING SPACE
36 Weitzman School of Design
(Richard Weller)
37 Urban Theory Lab (UTL) / 
Department of Architecture,
ETH Zürich; Neil Brenner;
Christian Schmid
Biennale 39 38 spbr arquitetos (Angelo Bucci)
Library- 40 39 Bethany Rigby
ASAC 40 Mabe Bethônico

38 30 S3 STATION: Architectural Worlds

(Hashim Sarkis; Roi Salgueiro Barrio;
Gabriel Kozlowski)
S4 STATION: Sheila Kennedy; Janelle
37 K Knox-Hayes; Miho Mazereeuw,
MIT Urban Risk Lab; James Wescoat,
MIT Aga Khan Program for Islamic
S1
36 31 S3 32
Architecture at MIT Venice Lab
13 21
14

10 S2

35 23
11 24
34 9 12 22
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SI1

SI3
CENTRAL PAVILION

ACROSS
BORDERS
PROTECTING 10 ACASA GRINGO CARDIA DESIGN
GLOBAL COMMONS (Gringo Cardia with AIKAX, Takumã
1 Dan Majka & Gary Setzer Kuikuro, and People’s Palace Projects,
2 Studio Tomás Saraceno Paul Heritage)
3 GFA 11 La Minga
(Guillermo Fernández-Abascal; (Pablo Escudero)
Urtzi Grau) 12 Atelier Marko Brajovic
4 Monsoon Assemblages and (Marko Brajovic; Bruno Bezerra)
Office of Experiments 13 UNLESS
(Lindsay Bremner; Neal White) (Giulia Foscari Widmann Rezzonico)
5 John Palmesino; Ann-Sofi Rönnskog; 14 Lateral Office and Arctic Design Group
Territorial Agency (Mason White; Lola Sheppard; Leena Cho;
6 Pinar Yoldas Matthew Jull)
7 Giuditta Vendrame
8 Self-Assembly Lab TRANSCENDING
(Skylar Tibbits; Jared Laucks; THE URBAN-RURAL DIVIDE
Schendy Kernizan) 15 Dogma
9 Somatic Collaborative (Martino Tattara; Pier Vittorio Aureli)
(Anthony Acciavatti; Felipe Correa; 16 Rural Urban Framework
Devin Dobrowolski) (Joshua Bolchover; John Lin)
17 Studio Paola Viganò
18 Paula Nascimento
19 Smout Allen
S1 (Laura Allen; Mark Smout; Geoff Manaugh)

13 14 LINKING THE LEVANT

20 Foundation for Achieving
10 Seamless Territory (FAST);
S2
Malkit Shoshan
21 AAU ANASTAS
23
21 (Elias Anastas; Yousef Anastas)
22

11 12
9 SEEKING REFUGE
24
22 Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency
(Alessandro Petti; Sandi Hilal)
23 Wissam Chaaya
20 25
7 24 Forensic Oceanography
26 (Charles Heller; Lorenzo Pezzani)

6 8 19
RE-SOURCING
3
RESOURCES
25 Chair of Günther Vogt ETH Zürich
18 26 Olalekan Jeyifous and Mpho Matsipa

4 5
SI3
SPORT PLATFORM: Architekt Christoph
17
Lechner & Partners
2
S1 STATION: Viviana d’Auria, KU LEUVEN
S2 STATION: Justinien Tribillon, The Bartlett
School of Planning
1

15

16

SI3
CENTRAL PAVILION

AS
ONE PLANET
SI2 Collective Exhibition Within Exhibition
Future Assembly (Caroline A. Jones,
Hadeel Ibrahim, Kumi Naidoo, Mariana
Mazzucato, Mary Robinson, Olafur Eliasson,
Paola Antonelli, Sebastian Behmann)

MAKING WORLDS
SI1 Michal Rovner
27 Cave_bureau SI2
(Karanja Kabage; Stella Mutegi)
28 TVK
(Pierre Alain Trévelo; Antoine Viger-Kohler) 40

29 Plan B Architecture & Urbanism 39

(Joyce Hsiang; Bimal Mendis)

30 Christina Agapakis, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
& Sissel Tolaas
30
31 Daniel López-Pérez; Reiser + Umemoto;
Princeton University School of Architecture 38
32 S.E.L
(Verena Paravel; Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
37

DESIGNING FOR
CLIMATE CHANGE
33 Kei Kaihoh Architects
34 DESIGN EARTH 36
(Rania Ghosn; El Hadi Jazairy) 31 S3 32

35 OOZE and Marjetica Potrč;

Eva Pfannes; Sylvain Hartenberg;
Marjetica Potrč

NETWORKING SPACE 35
36 Weitzman School of Design
(Richard Weller)
37 Urban Theory Lab (UTL) / 
Department of Architecture, 34
ETH Zürich; Neil Brenner;
Christian Schmid
38 spbr arquitetos
(Angelo Bucci)
39 Bethany Rigby 33 28 29
40 Mabe Bethônico

S4
STATION: Architectural Worlds
S3
(Hashim Sarkis; Roi Salgueiro Barrio;
Gabriel Kozlowski)
S4 STATION: Sheila Kennedy; Janelle K Knox-
Hayes; Miho Mazereeuw, MIT Urban Risk
Lab; James Wescoat, MIT Aga Khan Program
for Islamic Architecture at MIT Venice Lab

27

SI1
FORTE MARGHERA
1 SKULL studio +
MOLOARCHITEKTI
(Matej Hajek; Tereza Kucerova)
2 HHF Architects
(Tilo Herlach; Simon Hartmann;
Simon Frommenwiler)
3 Sean Ahlquist — 
Lab for Sociomaterial Architectures
at the University of Michigan
4 AWILDC — AWP London
(Alessandra Cianchetta)
5 Ifat Finkelman
& Deborah Pinto Fdeda

How will we
play together?
ACTV Stop
Boerio How we play together as children prepares us for the challenge
ACTV Stop of coexistence. The grounds of Forte Marghera feature
Forte Marghera
a ‘Children’s Biennale’ consisting of several projects under
the subtheme of How Will We Play Together? Here the Biennale
Architettura 2021 presents five strategies to expand bodily
experience, rehearse domestic spaces, reinvent communal rules
of games, elevate transgressive play, and reintroduce natural
phenomena into the space of play.
Hashim Sarkis
Venice Curator of 17th International Architecture Exhibition
 FORTE MARGHERA VENICE
ACTV ACTV Stop
Stop Forte Marghera
Boerio

VENEZIA

FORTE
5
MARGHERA RO 17
PK
Train Station

16

LT ACTV Stop
P.le Roma Rialto Bacini
6

10
MK Arsenale
CY
SM 14
8
12 San Marco
ACTV Stop 3
PT Ca’Giustinian 2
Arsenale 9 1
GD

DO

11 ACTV Stop
LB 7 Giardini
13 Giardini
ACTV Stop
Giardini Biennale

Isola di San Servolo

◢
15

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES COLLATERAL EVENTS

CY Republic of Cyprus PK Pakistan 1  Air/Aria/Aire _Catalonia in Venice 10  evive the Spirit of Mosul
R
Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Palazzo Mora, Strada Nuova, Cantieri Navali, Castello, 40 UNESCO Regional Bureau
Castello, 3865 Cannaregio, 3659 (calle Quintavalle) for Science and Culture in Europe,
h. 10 – 18 PT Portugal 2 “Charlotte Perriand and I”. Palazzo Zorzi, Castello, 4930
DO Dominican Republic Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi Onlus, Converging designs by Frank Gehry closed on Mon. and Tue.
St. George’s Anglican Church, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, and Charlotte Perriand 11  Salon Suisse 2021: Bodily Encounters
Campo San Vio, Dorsoduro San Marco, 2893 Espace Louis Vuitton, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi,
GD Grenada RO Romania San Marco, 1353 (calle del Ridotto) Dorsoduro, 810 (campo Santʹ Agnese)
Castello, 2146 Istituto Romeno di Cultura h. 10.30 – 18.30 open every day 23 – 25.09; 21 – 23.10; 18 – 20.11
IQ Iraq e Ricerca Umanistica 3  Connectivities: 12 Skirting The Center:
Venue being defined Palazzo Correr (Campo Santa Fosca) Living beyond the boundaries - Svetlana Kana Radević on the Periphery
LB Lebanon Cannaregio, 2214 Macao and the Greater Bay Area of Postwar Architecture
Magazzino del Sale 5, Dorsoduro, 262 SM Republic of San Marino Arsenale, Castello, 2126/A Palazzo Malvasia Palumbo Fossati,
LT Lithuania Ateneo Veneto - (campo della Tana) San Marco, 2597
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Derelitti, Campo San Fantin, 1897 4 Hakka Earthen Houses on variation- h. 10 – 18 closed on Mon.
Barbaria delle Tole, Castello, 6691 h. 10 – 13, 14 – 18 Co-operative Living, Art and Migration 13 The Majlis
h. 10 – 19 closed on Mon. (except on 24.05) Architecture in China Giardino dell’Abbazia
closed on Mon. (except on 24.05) Forte Marghera, padiglione 30 di San Giorgio Maggiore,
MK Republic of North Macedonia 22.06 – 21.11 Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
UNESCO Regional Bureau h. 14 – 20 closed on Mon. h. 11 – 18
for Science and Culture in Europe, 5 Lianghekou 14  Tropicalia. Architecture, Materials,
Palazzo Zorzi, Castello, 4930 Palazzo Zen, Cannaregio, 4924 Innovative Systems
22.05 – 29.09 (fondamenta di Santa Caterina) Squero Castello, Castello, 369
h. 14 – 19 closed on Tue. (salizada Streta)
6  Mutualities h. 10 – 13, 14 – 18 closed on Mon.
Spazio Ravà, San Polo, 1100 15 Without Land / Pomerium –
(Riva del Vin) Senza Terra / Pomerio
h. 10 – 18 closed on Tue. Isola di San Servolo
7 Not Vital. SCARCH h. 8 – 12, 13 – 16 open every day
Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, 16 Young European Architects
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore CAʹASI, Palazzo Santa Maria Nova,
Ca’ Giustinian h. 10 – 18 Cannaregio, 6024
La Biennale di Venezia Headquarter 8 P rimitive Migration from/to Taiwan (campiello Santa Maria Nova)
San Marco 1364/A Palazzo delle Prigioni, by appointment
- Uffici /Offices Castello, 4209 (San Marco) 17  Young Talent Architecture
- Caffetteria h. 10 – 18 Award 2020. Educating together
- Exhibitions 9 Redistribution: Palazzo Mora, Cannaregio, 3659
Land, People & Environment (Strada Nova) closed on Tue.
23.07 – 1.08 Arsenale, Castello, 2126
D3 Biennale Danza (campo della Tana)
FUTURE SELF
Random International
Company Wayne McGregor

Unless specified otherwise, opening hours and closing days are the same as those of the Giardini and Arsenale venues.
information on access and booking: labiennale.org
PROGETTO SPECIALE EMBODIED ACTION
PADIGLIONE DELLE ARTI APPLICATE THREE COLLABORATIONS
THREE BRITISH MOSQUES BETWEEN BIENNALE DANZA
Responding to the theme How will we live together? this display AND BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA
– curated by Christopher Turner and Ella Kilgallon – marks the
fifth year of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collaboration (23.07 – 1.08)
with La Biennale di Venezia and will explore contemporary
multiculturalism through three adapted mosque spaces in From Vitruvian man, the ideal measure of all things, to the
London. The Brick Lane mosque, a former Protestant chapel contemporary dancer, subject and object of increasingly
then Synagogue; Old Kent Road mosque housed in a former pub; integrated knowledge, dance achieves a natural understanding
and Harrow Central mosque, a purpose-built space that sits next with architecture. Thus, this year, the Biennale Danza will
door to the converted terraced house it used to occupy. intersect with the places and times of the Biennale Architettura.
With the installations NOT ONCE, TOM and FUTURE SELF 
which will be shown inside the Exhibition for the duration
of the Festival under the title  Embodied Action. And with
EVENTO SPECIALE the dancers-choreographers from the Biennale College, who –
THE LISTENER under the mentorship of Wayne McGregor – will create short
choreographic fragments, “snapshots” or “sketches” inspired by
Commissioned by: Vuslat Foundation the signs, materials, content and themes of the 17th International
Chairwoman: Vuslat Doğan Sabancı Architecture Exhibition. Their solo performances – Solos in
Curator at Large : Chus Martinez Biennale Architettura – will be presented at the Arsenale in the
Artistic Director: Merve Yeşilada Çağlar section of the Exhibition titled Among Diverse Beings.
Giuseppe Penone (Italian, b. 1947) Idee di pietra - Olmo, 2008
Installation for the Biennale Architettura 2021 As Wayne McGregor writes: “The three works, although distinct
and surprising in their individual expansions of body as space,
space as body, all speak to the central question of How will we
live together? Interaction, dialogue, sharing and connection –
PROGETTI SPECIALI communication as the heart of our experience, our most basic
human need. The dynamic interplay between our motivations,
CULTURE-C1, 2021 what we want to express and exchange, how effectively we do
Michal Rovner (Israeli, b. 1957) that and how we ‘read’ and respond to the impulses of others,
is a communication that sits primarily through and with the
body. Today, our understanding of our bodies and the bodies
FUTURE ASSEMBLY, 2020 of others is exploding in multiple dimensions, blurring with
Caroline A. Jones (American, b. 1954), Hadeel Ibrahim its once external environments, and augmented in a myriad of
(British/Sudanese, b. 1983), Kumi Naidoo (South African, startling and perception-altering ways. We are learning how to
b. 1965), Mariana Mazzucato (Italian/American, b. 1968), communicate anew. And so too the dance, the art form where
Mary Robinson (Irish, b. 1944), Olafur Eliasson (Danish/ embodied action and physical empathy speaks beyond borders
Icelandic, b. 1967), Paola Antonelli (Italian, b. 1963) and often to universal truths”.
e Sebastian Behmann (German, b. 1969)

SPORT PLATFORM - 2021

Christoph Lechner (Austrian, b.1966) di Architekt Christoph
Lechner & Partners (Austria, est. 2012) in collaboration with
Georg Wizany (Austrian, b. 1980) and Reto Schindler (Austrian,
b. 1965) of Architekt Christoph Lechner & Partners, progetto
curatoriale Kevin Moore (American, b. 1964) and Trevor Smith
(American), and the Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum (Qatar),
the Institute of Sport Sciences at the University of Vienna
(Austria, est. 1977) and Park Books (Switzerland, est. 2012)
 INFORMATION
17TH INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION* SERVICES FOR VISITORS
ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION Full price € 85 Bar, restaurant, bookshop, info
How will we live together? Concessionary € 50 (for Venice point, courtesy transport service
How to access residents) with electric cars for visitors with
the exhibition Students and/or under 26 € 45 reduced mobility
Opening times: According to the regulations in One week € 45 (valid for LUGGAGE POLICY
Giardini and Arsenale force, tickets are strictly personal, 7 consecutive days from validation GIARDINI
22.05 – 31.07: 11 am – 7 pm non-transferable, non-duplicable, date – closing days excluded) A free supervised cloakroom for
(last admission 6.45 pm) non-refundable. * Accreditations are strictly small bags, umbrellas, daypacks is
1.08 – 21.11: 10 am – 6 pm The tickets that give the right to personal and a valid ID available.
(last admission 5.45 pm) the reduction will be checked at is required at the entrance No storage facilities
Closed on Mondays the gates of the exhibition by the Architecture + DMT FORMULA for travel luggage.
(except on 24.05, 5.07, 26.07, staff appointed to check. (1 Architecture ticket Small to medium size pets
30.08, 6.09, 1.11, 15.11) In line with the hygienic-sanitary + 1 performance/concert) on a leash are admitted
Forte Marghera protocols envisaged for cultural Architecture + Dance, to the Giardini green area only
19.05 – 22.11 activities, it is recommended to or Music, or Theatre € 35
HOW TO REACH
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