Curated by Carlo Ratti, director of the Senseable City Lab and a founding partner of the architecture and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA), the theme of the Venice Biennale 2025 is “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Says Ratti, “To face a burning world, architecture must harness all the intelligence around us.”

The Corderie

The Corderie opens with a stark confrontation: global temperatures rise while global populations fall. This is the reality architects must face in a time of adaptation. From here – explains Ratti – visitors will traverse three thematic worlds: Natural Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and Collective Intelligence. The Exhibition culminates in Out, and asks: can we look to space as a solution to the crises we face on Earth?

Venice as a Living Lab

With the venue of the Central Pavilion under renovation in 2025, Venice will not just host the Biennale Architettura — it will become a living laboratory. The city itself will serve as the backdrop for a new kind of Exhibition, where installations, prototypes, and experiments are scattered across the Giardini, the Arsenale and other neighbourhoods.  

Special Projects

The project Margherissima, exhibited inside the Austrian armoury (Polveriera austriaca), Forte Marghera in Mestre, focuses in the area of Marghera and the contaminated territory located near Ponte della Libertà. It is designed by Nigel Coates and the Architectural Association with Michael Keverne, Guan Lee, John Maybury and Jan Bunge, participants in the International Exhibition competition.