Our highlights at the 2025 Architecture Biennale

Our design editor Linda Pezzai selects the best pavilions of 2025 at the Architecture Biennale.

The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale demonstrates how architecture is being reimagined beyond control, convention and concrete. From fluid spaces dominated by water to queer bodies as a form of resistance against fossil fuels, the contributions range from speculative urban planning to textile meditations on transience. In a time of global crises, architecture becomes a living process that not only shapes, but also questions, connects and transforms.

The emergence of poetic spaces – Uruguay

The Uruguayan pavilion announces the Hydrocene – an age in which water becomes architectural intelligence. With floating drops, metallic resonators and the voices of indigenous communities, we witness the emergence of a poetic space that examines scarcity, sound and climate resilience. Architecture flows, circles, drips – and liquefies old paradigms.

uruguay​-bienal​-venecia​.mec​.gub​.uy

From radicalism to fluidity – Helsinki

Curated by Helsinki-based architect Kaisa Karvinen, Sverre Fehn’s iconic pavilion becomes an arena of resistance. In Industry Muscle: Five Scores for Architecture, Finnish artist Teo Ala-Ruona has created a radical critique of fossil fuel power structures and architectural rigidity. Within the context of choreographed nudity, recycled marble and queer fluidity, a new form of spatial experience emerges. The body becomes a tool for breaking through modern heritage – raw, sensual, uncomfortable.

designmuseum​.fi, mfa​.fi, arkdes​.se

Is safety the norm? – Poland

What protects us? The fire extinguisher on the wall or the blessed rosary on the door frame? The Polish exhibition explores a feeling that cannot be standardised – safety. From archaic rituals to modern bureaucracy, the living space becomes a projection screen for collective fears. The immersive pavilion by Maciej Siuda, Krzysztof Maniak and Katarzyna Przezwańska acts like a spell that protects against disasters, but also against forgetting.

labiennale​.art​.pl

Craftsmanship meets technology – Serbia

Woven wool panels, made by humans and machines, hang in the space like breathing landscapes – slowly being deconstructed by solar-powered motors. At the end of the Biennale, there will be 125 balls of wool. The Serbian contribution is a textile meditation on transience, the circular economy and the silent interplay of craftsmanship and technology. 

unraveling​.rs

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