2025


19th Architecture Biennale in Venice


The curatorial team made up of Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak and Lorenzo Romito would design the show at the Austrian Pavilion

Agency for Better Living

Their proposal Agency for Better Living won the project competition organised by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.

Andrea Mayer, State Secretary for Art and Culture: "The Biennale is one of the most significant art exhibitions worldwide. In 2025, it is again the turn of architecture and the Biennale raises awareness for a subject that influences and shapes our living environment. It provides space for reflecting on architecture and, aside of aesthetic issues, also increasingly on the social and political responsibility of architecture. Thus, Austria’s commitment to the Biennale, to this unique international cultural exchange, is unwavering.

The contribution selected for 2025 is a project with strong references to Vienna since it deals, on the one hand, with ‘social housing’ and, hence, affordable housing and, on the other hand, with the re-use of abandoned or unfinished buildings and former infrastructures illustrated by examples found in the host country Italy, specifically in Rome.”

Project on burning global housing issues


The project focuses on burning global housing issues that are going to be addressed in a synthesis of top-down schemes (successful model of social housing in Vienna) and bottom-up approaches (self-organisation models of civil society) based on specific architectures and explorations of different systems.

More information at:

www.bmkoes.gv.at/kunst-und-kultur/sparten/bildende-kunst-design-mode-fotografie-medienkunst/biennale-venedig/architektur-biennale-2025.html

www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktuelles/news/die-agency-for-better-living-ist-oesterreichs-beitrag-zur-architekturbiennale-2025

Biennale Architettura 2025

Intelligens
Natural. Artificial. Collective.

Exhibition: 10 May - 23 November 2025

Curator: Carlo Ratti

www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025

 

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