Biennale Architettura 2021. How will we live together? Architects today are rethinking their tools to address the complex problems at hand.

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition titled How will we live together? was opened to the public on the 22nd of May at the Giardini, the Arsenale, and Forte Marghera in Venice. Curated by Hashim Sarkis and organised by La Biennale di Venezia, the event  brought together  61 national participations. 

The participants are collaborating with other professions and constituencies – artists, builders, engineers, and craftspeople, but also politicians, journalists, social scientists, and everyday citizens. In effect, the Biennale Architettura 2021 asserts the vital role of the architect as both cordial convener and custodian of the spatial contract. In parallel, this Exhibition also maintains that it is in its material, spatial, and cultural specificity that architecture inspires the ways we live together. In that respect, the organisers ask the participants to highlight those aspects of the main theme that are uniquely architectural.

Architects today are rethinking their tools to address the complex problems at hand. They are also enlarging their table to include other professionals and citizens. To effectively take on the responsibilities being presented to them, architects are extending one of their most important roles, as generous synthesizers of different forms of expertise and expression”. – says the curator Hashim Sarkis in his statement.

Biennale Architettura 2021

Saturday 22 May through Sunday 21 November 2021

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