La Biennale di Venezia in the Year 2021

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition – the whole series, the art part included, is known under the name La Biennale di Venezia – ran from 22 May to 21 November 2021, curated by scholar and architect Hashim Sarkis. Its motto was „How will we live together?“. „We need a new spatial contract. In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, we call on architects to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together“, Sarkis said to the organizers (s. Website Biennale). „Hashim Sarkis has been Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2015. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a PhD in Architecture from Harvard University.“ (Website Biennale) Biennial themes ranged from architecture’s responses to climate change to proposals for living on other planets to the interactions between smart cities or smart houses and cyborgs. Ethical issues were repeatedly addressed.

Fig.: La Biennale di Venezia