How can architects tackle the climate crisis with natural, artificial, and collective intelligence? This is the theme of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Carlo Ratti in Venice. Until November 23, architects, artists, and scientists present multidisciplinary visionary projects. Sixty-five national pavilions explore the main theme with inspiring exhibitions. Check out what we like the most at the 2025 Venice Biennale!
As Israel sits out the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, the British and Lebanese pavilions confront architecture’s role amid the Middle Eastern conflict.
With the ‘Alternative Urbanism’ exhibition at the 2025 Venice Biennale, Oshinowo Studio spotlights Lagos markets as models of circular urbanism deeply rooted in West African culture and informal economy.
Artisans and machines work hand in hand at BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group’s ‘Ancient Future: Bridging Bhutan’s Tradition and Innovation’ showcase.
The OUT section of the 2025 Venice Biennale explores how space-driven innovation can build and shape a sustainable future through architecture.
The ‘Collective Intelligens’ section at the 2025 Venice Biennale shows how the knowledge communities have passed down across generations can inspire resilient, people-driven architecture and become a pivotal tool to trigger change.
The Artificial Intelligence section of Carlo Ratti’s Biennale shows how technology is shaping the world around us—from the spaces we live in to the systems that keep society running.
How can architecture tackle climate change? The Natural Intelligens section at Carlo Ratti’s Venice Biennale explores nature-driven solutions, from pachidems’ dung bricks to architecturally grown branches, city-dwelling bugs’ homes, and structures grown by microbes.
The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale merges architecture and biotechnology with Picoplanktonics, an exhibition featuring bioarchitectures thriving with CO2-absorbing cyanobacteria.
Data fountains, ‘hydric doors,’ and an architecture atlas. The ‘Water Parliaments’ exhibition invites visitors to reflect on water’s role in shaping our environment.
The Landscape of Defence exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale narrates the militarised border zone from the perspective of its inhabitants.
Part espresso bar, part laboratory, the Canal Café project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Ukraine Pavilion explores architecture as a tool for resistance: from traditional building methods to improvised construction and the reconstruction process.
Can weather insulation tackle climate change as much as social and spatial challenges? The Estonia Pavilion in Venice raises a provocative question.
The Bahrain Pavilion in Venice proposes an innovative solution inspired by traditional cooling systems that helps construction workers deal with extreme heat.
Majeda Alhinai and William Virgil digitally abstracted elements of traditional communal spaces into a sinuous aluminium architecture for the first Oman Pavilion in Venice.
A mass timber structure welcomes visitors to the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition explores the porch as a powerful architectural and cultural space of welcoming, community, and imagination.
The SIDELINED exhibition queers the sports bar reimagining how we can play together, gather, and compete without divisions.
Modernism shaped architecture for men and women. The Industry Muscle exhibition transforms the Nordic Pavilion in Venice into a stage, showcasing an alternative architectural model envisioned from a trans perspective.
With the ‘Build of Site’ exhibition, Søren Pihlmann renovated the Denmark Pavilion at the Venice Biennale while showcasing innovative methods for reusing surplus materials uncovered during the construction process.
A subtropical forest within the Belgian pavilion ‘controls’ irrigation, lighting, and ventilation systems to purify the air and lower the temperature. The Building Biospheres exhibition investigates the potential of plants in architecture.
Whisky meets architecture on the eve of the Venice Biennale. Ben Dobbin’s design highlights the perfectly balanced nature of The Dalmore as well as the ebb and flow of Scotland’s landscape. The sculpture is the third chapter of the Luminary Series project co-curated with V&A Dundee.
Are you going to Venice for the Biennale? Make sure to explore outside the Arsenale and Giardini. We rounded up sixteen exhibitions across the city’s canals.
We selected sixteen national pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2025 that explore how architects can react to climate change with natural, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Titled Intelligens, Carlo Ratti’s Biennale focuses on architecture that tackles climate change and today’s global issues with a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. Kengo Kuma presents a high-tech installation upcycling fallen trees, Ukrainian architects harness AI to rebuild their country, and astronauts invite us to focus on our planet first.
The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale highlights a new collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to tackling climate change.
