The selected Luxembourg Pavilion proposal frames housing inequality and ecological limits through a cross-contextual dialogue between Luxembourg and Vietnam, making it a timely architecture-and-housing story with international relevance.
Location
Luxembourg Pavilion, Arsenale, Sale d’Armi, 1st floor, Campo Della Tana 2169F, 30122 Venice, Italy
Organizations
Exutoire — Curatorial practice; visual identity; Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg — Commissioner; Luxembourg arts council; LUCA—Luxembourg Center for Architecture — Commissioner; Luxembourg architecture center; Marion Dessard — Photography
The pavilion will frame housing’s overlooked shared spaces as democratic infrastructure, offering a timely curatorial argument about social isolation, community and the architecture of everyday coexistence.
Location
German Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
Organizations
KAWAHARA KRAUSE ARCHITECTS — Lead curatorial practice; Technical University of Munich Architekturmuseum — Curatorial and academic collaborator through Andres Lepik; Leibniz University Hannover — Curatorial institution through Olga Cobuscean; RWTH Aachen University — Academic contributor; RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau — Academic contributor; State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart — Academic contributor
The pavilion extends architecture’s role beyond postwar reconstruction imagery to the immediate spatial needs of displaced people: stable housing, dignity, rest and the point at which survival can become living. The selection also gives an international platform to a volunteer-led adaptive-reuse housing initiative working during the war.
Location
Ukrainian Pavilion, 20th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
Organizations
Ukrainian Institute — Commissioner and competition organizer; METALAB — Winning organization and project team; CO-HATY — Housing and adaptive-reuse initiative forming the basis of the pavilion; Ukrainian Urban Curators — CO-HATY team collaborator
The open, juried commission will determine Spain’s national architectural statement at Venice and has a near-term submission deadline relevant to Spanish practices and curators.
Location
Spanish Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy; competition administered from Madrid, Spain
Organizations
Dirección General de Agenda Urbana y Arquitectura — Contracting authority and competition organizer; Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, Spain — Government commissioner
The September 21 deadline is a significant opportunity for Spanish architects, designers and curators. The commission covers curatorship, exhibition design and the subsequent touring of Spain’s national pavilion at the 20th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Location
Spanish Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
Organizations
Dirección General de Agenda Urbana y Arquitectura — Contracting and organizing authority; La Biennale di Venezia — Host institution
