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
