•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Thea Hawlin Sep 18, 2025
An on-ground report in the final few weeks of the ECC’s showcase this year draws on its tenets and its reception, placing agency and action in the present over future travails.
by Jincy Iype Aug 06, 2025
STIR speaks to Niklas Bildstein Zaar of sub on how their exhibition design and AI exhibition guide for VAB reframes ‘intelligence’ as something architecture can live and perform.
by Ayesha Adonais Jul 19, 2025
STIR speaks to Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler on their Silver Lion-winning 'large scale visual manifesto' traversing history, colonialism, militarisation and technology.
by Jincy Iype Jul 09, 2025
A deserted studio, ex-architects and a timeline from ‘Less is more’ to ‘No is more’: Hungary's national pavilion at the Biennale Architettura explores alternative post-architecture merits.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 04, 2025
STIR speaks to the Swiss architect on his curation for BAP! 2025 in Versailles, his studio's research prerogatives and adapting to global warming as a central strategy for architecture.
by Anushka Sharma Jul 02, 2025
Internalities: Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 rethinks sustainability via local materials, traditional trades and territorial balance.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 27, 2025
The Nigerian architect speaks to STIR about her project at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, touching on informality and resourcefulness as an alternative to hyperconsumerism.
by Agnish Ray Jun 20, 2025
Select exhibitors at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale probe what warfare targeting natural landscapes and urbanscapes means for the built environment.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 17, 2025
The citizen-led initiative by German architects b+ has been awarded for their campaign to make renovation the norm for construction by proposing new legislation in the European Union.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 07, 2025
Titled ‘Industry Muscle: Five Scores for Architecture’, the pavilion features works by Finnish artist Teo Ala-Ruona, re-examining modernist legacies through the lens of trans bodies.
by Anmol Ahuja May 23, 2025
The genealogy of a showcase relying as heavily on technology as the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 as both medium and usher for a future architecture is seldom without biases.
by Almas Sadique May 14, 2025
In conversation with STIR, BENTO's Corentin Dalon shares anecdotes about the studio's beginnings, experimental adventures, traditional inspirations and speculative aspirations.
by Anushka Sharma May 12, 2025
From climate-responsive design to long-term urban experiments, this year's awards reflect a shifting architectural discourse rooted in ecology, collaboration and systems thinking.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 08, 2025
STIR picks key offerings from the seventh edition of the architecture biennale, organised by the European Cultural Centre, that redefine design for a sustainable world.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 07, 2025
National participants at the architecture biennale explore resource efficiency, adaptability and sustainability, foregrounding national aspirations and universal applications.
by Aarthi Mohan May 03, 2025
From vernacular knowledge to modern sustainability, the pavilions of UAE, Oman, Türkiye, Qatar and others at La Biennale 2025 serve as living archives of alternative architectures.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 30, 2025
STIR engages with the curators of the Togo, Azerbaijan, Oman and Qatar pavilions—debuting at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025—on representation, access and shared histories.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 26, 2025
STIR lists the best of projects curated by Carlo Ratti for his exhibition, national participations, special projects and collateral events as a guide to navigating this year’s expansive biennale.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 07, 2025
The Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 confers the prestigious honour on the American philosopher and Italian architect for their contributions to architectural thinking and design.
by Almas Sadique Mar 11, 2025
In conversation with STIR, David Barragán shares the collaborative processes that shape Al Borde’s understanding and implementation of local traditions in contemporary contexts.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 15, 2024
On the opening of his latest project at Art Omi in New York, STIR speaks with the artist on his exploration of the entanglement of contexts, humans, nature and time in his work.
by Eleonora Ghedini May 09, 2024
Curator Carlo Ratti underlines the collective value of intelligence while investigating the dialogue between natural and artificial, as well as between disciplines.
by STIRworld Jan 23, 2024
Minsuk Cho's firm in South Korea designs ‘Archipelagic Void’ for the Serpentine Pavilion in the Kensington Gardens for the 23rd iteration of the project.
by Jincy Iype Dec 31, 2023
STIRred 2023: We look back on some of the most engaging, thought-provoking, and explorative events that STIRred the global creative community this year.
by Almas Sadique Oct 05, 2023
The exhibition Coastal Imaginaries, part of the Danish Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, calls attention to novel visions for the future of coastal landscapes.
by Aarthi Mohan Oct 04, 2023
STIR explores the intersection of culture, community and architecture with Regenerative Power at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.
by Anushka Sharma Oct 04, 2023
For ‘Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa,’ V&A partners with Architectural Association and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to view decolonisation through an architectural lens.
by Aarthi Mohan Sep 18, 2023
Metaverse Architecture Biennale 2023, with STIR as a media partner, journeys beyond the virtual realm into the future of design.
by Daria Kravchuk Aug 29, 2023
The Majlis: A Meeting Place, presented by the Caravane Earth Foundation, is a shared dynamic public space that explores the meaning of traditional gathering places.
by Zohra Khan Aug 18, 2023
The Canada Pavilion conceived by the Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) highlights the ongoing housing crisis in Canada and its capitalist and colonialist roots.
by Ruth Lang Aug 11, 2023
The 'ghosts in the gallery', as described by curator Vicky Richardson, are displayed to be 'substitutes' for the architecture which is too vast to be exhibited at the Royal Academy, London.
by Zohra Khan Jul 06, 2023
Through drawings, models, and maps, In Search of Hy-Brasil looks into three remote Irish islands while imagining their future through the folklore of a mythical phantom island.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jul 06, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky interviews Iryna Miroshnykova, Oleksii Petrov, and Borys Filonenko, co-curators of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale.
by Zohra Khan Jun 29, 2023
The tectonically loaded installation, It’s Kind of a Circular Story, puts a spotlight on the importance of reuse of existing abandoned buildings in realising zero-waste interventions.
by Ayesha Adonais Jun 23, 2023
A look at the impact, and Lesley Lokko's curatorial exploration at the biennale, as it narrates a story of "shape-shifters, material explorers, bound by history and heritage."
by Devanshi Shah May 26, 2023
A powerful curatorial structure by Lesley Lokko needs to be carefully absorbed as an exhibition, a presentation and a display.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky May 25, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks to Richard Hassell who together with his partner Wong Mun Summ co-founded WOHA to make high-density projects livable.
by Sunena V Maju May 20, 2023
The Golden Lion was awarded to the Brazil Pavilion and DAAR under the National and International Participation for their exhibitions Terra and Borgo Rizza respectively.
by Zohra Khan May 12, 2023
The artist-designer and founder of the 50s art collective Zaria Rebels was recognised by Biennale Architettura 2023 for silently stirring the landscape of Nigeria and beyond.
by Eleonora Ghedini May 02, 2023
Curator Lesley Lokko offers a new perspective on how architects of the future should be and what one can expect from the Biennale Architettura 2023.
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