Tour the 2021 National Pavilions at Venice Architecture Biennale
Stuck at home? We got you. Our virtual tour of the 2021 National Pavilions at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale will help transport you to the avant-garde of contemporary architecture from across the globe
The British Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Photography: Cristiano Corte, courtesy of British Council
Varied and engaging as ever, the 2021 National Pavilions at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale tell a story of the current concerns of architecture and urbanism around the world. Spread across the Giardini park, the Arsenale grounds and several other locations in Venice, the national participations and responses to Hashim Sarkis’ seminal question ‘How Will We Live Together?’ are rich and multi-faceted. Topics range from challenges of the urban realm, technology, sustainability, migration and housing. Let the virtual tour begin!
With Italy’s famed lagoon city of Venice opening its doors for the 17
th Architecture Biennale, New Europe had the pleasure to speak, in an exclusive interview, with H.E. Aziz Abdukhakimov, the Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan and his country’s Minister of Tourism and Sports, about the key concepts that have factored into the Central Asian nation taking part in such an important international cultural event for the first time.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Aziz Abdukhakimov.
Uzbekistan participated in the International Architecture Exhibition, or
La Biennale di Venezia in Italian, with an exhibition titles
Mahalla: Urban Rural Living, which was curated by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, both of whom are professors of architecture and design at ETH Zurich, and the founding partners of Christ & Gantenbein. Their firm has featured works by Spanish filmmaker Carlos Casas, Dutch photographer Bas Princen, and the CCA Lab Tashkent. The exhibition