{"id":14256,"date":"2025-07-16T17:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T17:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/?p=14256"},"modified":"2025-07-16T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T17:15:50","slug":"zeppelin-175-venice-biennale-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/zeppelin-175-venice-biennale-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeppelin #175: Venice Biennale. Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the context of this year’s theme, Intelli-gens, the question posed by Carlo Ratti – the curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale – is: how do we rethink the way we practice architecture in an altered environment? Where can we still draw our sources of knowledge, inspiration, and strength to design intelligently amid radical, ongoing change? Still, an altered environment means more than desertification, loss of biodiversity, and extreme climate events: alongside the ruin of nature, we are also witnessing, in real time – and in unforeseen ways – the decline of civic trust and of democracy as we knew them. As we also know, one of the consequences of architecture is the shaping of social life itself.<\/p>\n

Edito: The tree in front of the house<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Text and Photo: Cătălina Frâncu<\/p>\n

DOSSIER: Venice Architecture Biennale<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Human Scale<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romanian Participation at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vlad Nancă, Muromuro Studio, Cosmina Goagea<\/p>\n

Text: Cosmina Goagea, curator
\nPhoto: YWP Studio<\/p>\n

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The Human Scale exhibition seeks to recover the human dimension of architecture, advocating for a more conscious approach to the profession – one that acknowledges its power to materialize political, cultural, and ideological messages around people and life, thereby transforming the world we inhabit. A reflection on the human being as a symbol – as traced in hand drawings of 20th-century architects, historical maps, the works of artist Vlad Nancă, and in a spatial installation created by the Muromuro architecture studio – attempts to understand our capacity to adapt to various transitions and abrupt paradigm shifts.<\/p>\n

In response to Ratti’s challenge to regenerate the world, the Human Scale project proposes a critical revisitation of moments when architecture functioned as a form of repair in the recent past, with the aim of identifying and reformulating a set of tools that are relevant to contemporary practice. (…)<\/p>\n

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Nature, Robots, and Tradition<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 – Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plenty of projects, tough questions, a touch of chaos — and a glimmer of optimism.<\/p>\n

Text : Ioana Tiran
\nPhoto: Andrea Avezzù, Marco Zorzanello<\/p>\n

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“Adaptation requires a radical change in our practice. This year’s exhibition, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., invites different forms of intelligence to work together to rethink the built environment.”<\/p>\n

This is how curator Carlo Ratti describes the theme of this edition — and the central challenge facing architects in a world of stark contrasts. A world in which accelerating climate change generates natural disasters that destroy entire human settlements, while artificial intelligence is becoming ever more present and accessible, simplifying our everyday lives.<\/p>\n

The mission put forward for architects seems simple: to mediate between nature and technology, enable their cooperation, and chart a course of action for the long-term healthy and harmonious development of the built environment. However, the complexity of this mission is reflected in the overwhelming variety of solutions presented this year at the Venice Architecture Biennale — a dense exhibition, certainly impossible to fully absorb in just two days. (…)<\/p>\n

ZOOM<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Architect and Educator. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dossier: Níall McLaughlin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reporter: Cătălina Frâncu
\nPhoto: Nick Kane, NMLA, David Valinsky, Níall McLaughlin<\/p>\n

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Construction, learning as professional practice, and the curiosity sparked by the minds of others. One discussion and three projects.
\nThe interview, together with three projects geared towards the physical and mental well-being of students, indicate the professional priorities of Níall and his team while revealing the pedagogical profile of one of the most liked teachers of the discipline.<\/p>\n