Architecture has hit a nadir at the Venice Biennale

Architecture has hit a nadir at the Venice Biennale

Much of Venice’s Giardini this year was as boarded up as a British high street. The Israeli pavilion was empty, apparently awaiting refurbishment. (At the 2024 art biennale, the curators had closed it in the face of pro-Palestinian protests, prompting the latter to demand it should be opened, presumably so they could protest its closure.)

Óskar Örn Arnórsson writes: What is architecture? There are as many definitions of architecture as there are people. I'll start with the most famous one, by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier who wrote: "L'architecture est le jeu savant, correct et magnifique des volumes sous la lumière." "Architecture is a learned, correct and magnificent game of volumes in light." The definition is both graphic and poetic. It closes off as much as it opens. It i…

MHP became a partner of the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.