On February 21, 2023, the program of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia has been announced. It is an honor and not a small responsibility for our practice to assume the task of documenting the creative and work processes that will take place in what will be the first edition of the Biennale College Architettura. We are grateful to curator Lesley Lokko and President Roberto Cicutto for selecting us for this mission, which we will try to carry out with honesty and authenticity.
For the first time ever, the Biennale Architettura will include the Biennale College Architettura, which will run from 25 June to 22 July 2023. Fifteen renowned international tutors – Samia Henni, Marina Otero, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Thireshen Govender, Lorenzo Romito, Jacopo Galli, Philippa Tumubweinee, Ngillan Gbadebo Faal, Rahesh Ram, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Urtzi Grau, Samir Pandya, Alice Clancy, Sarah de Villiers and Manijeh Verghese – will work with fifty students, early career practitioners and academics from around the world, selected by curator Lesley Lokko through an Open Call process over the four weeks of the teaching programme. At the conclusion of the Call on February 17th, 986 applications had been received. An international cast of critics will join the College in July.
A documentary of this educational experience will be directed by architect Ángel Borrego Cubero and released this fall.
