Hashim Sarkis to curate Venice Architecture Biennale 2020
Architect Hashim Sarkis, dean of architecture and planning at MIT, will be director for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2020. More
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British Council calls for entries that spark debate for Venice Architecture Biennale 2020
Dezeen promotion: the British Council has launched an open call for proposals to exhibit in the British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2020. More
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"We treat every project as research" say Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats
Flores & Prats stood out at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, showing a full-scale mockup of its Sala Beckett theatre and a tiny woodland chapel. As the event comes to a close, the studio founders speak to Dezeen about how they treat every project as an experiment. More
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Automated machine by Riccardo Blumer Atelier builds a wall out of soap bubbles
Riccardo Blumer Atelier worked with a team of students to create this machine on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is programmed to build and repair an 11-metre-long bubble wall. More
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Belgian Pavilion promotes a "more interesting" Europe to counter rising nationalism
Belgium's Venice Biennale pavilion is being used as a forum for debate about the future of Europe, in a bid to prevent the continent becoming further divided. More
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Baxendale's Venice outdoor playground made permanent for length of biennale
A colourful interactive frame that Baxendale created as part of Scotland's contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 has been saved from being dismantled. More
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"Designing and writing about a building are very different processes of thought"
The Venice Biennale manifesto of Grafton Architects is proof that vapid commentary can diminish great architecture, says Owen Hatherley. More
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Luxembourg Pavilion calls for architects to "give more space to the public" by building on stilts
Projects by Aldo Rossi, Paul Rudolph and Le Corbusier show how buildings on stilts can be used to covertly introduce public space onto private land, according to the curators of the Luxembourg Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Venice Biennale project sees derelict 1980s flat transformed back into family home
A social-housing apartment that stood empty for five years is becoming a family home again, after being refurbished for a Venice Architecture Biennale show. More
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10 Venice Architecture Biennale installations that invite you to interact
This year's Venice Architecture Biennale is bursting with models, including several you can touch or inhabit. Dezeen's social media editor Danil Boparai picks 10 of the best examples. More
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360-degree video offers a look inside all 10 chapels built by the Vatican City in Venice
This 360-degree video created by Dezeen offers a look inside all 10 chapels commissioned by the Vatican City for its inaugural Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition, including designs by Terunobu Fujimoro, Smiljan Radić and Sean Godsell. More
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10 pavilions not to be missed at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
There are 63 national pavilions at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. But if you don't have time to visit them all, here's our guide to the 10 best, selected by Dezeen editor Amy Frearson. More
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360-degree video reveals the EU-blue amphitheatre inside the Belgian Pavilion
This 360-degree video filmed by Dezeen offers a look inside the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is hosting an amphitheatre for discussion about European politics. More
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V&A director defends Robin Hood Gardens display at Venice Biennale against claims of "art-washing"
Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A museum in London, has defended the institution's decision to exhibit a section of the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Cruising Pavilion aims to show how sex "is always latent or silenced" in architecture
The practice of cruising is changing the way that buildings are designed, according to the curators of a Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition that brings together sex and architecture. More
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Vatican City presents woodland chapels built by architects including Foster, Souto de Moura and Flores & Prats
The Vatican City seeks to question the meaning of the chapel in the 21st century with its debut at the Venice Architecture Biennale, a series of woodland structures by famous architects from around the world. More
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Vatican City's patronage is "exactly what architecture needs" says Norman Foster
The Vatican City is a champion for contemporary architecture, according to Norman Foster, one of several architects commissioned by the Catholic city state for the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Architects must reclaim Venice Architecture Biennale from "arrogant" curators, says Patrik Schumacher
Patrik Schumacher has launched an attack on the curators of the national pavilions at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which he claims are "devoid of architecture". More
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Explore the huge cell-like balloons inside the Nordic Pavilion in 360-degree video
This 360-video filmed by Dezeen offers a look inside the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is filled with filled with expanding and contracting blobs designed to look like cells. More
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V&A unveils huge section of demolished Robin Hood Gardens at Venice Architecture Biennale
Visitors to the Venice Architecture Biennale can walk the "streets in the sky" of London's Robin Hood Gardens, as the V&A museum has shipped a huge chunk of the brutalist housing estate to Italy. More
