•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 Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 12, 2025
For Intelligens, participations by Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao explore how infrastructure and development prerogatives in Asian megacities are (re)produced for global perceptions.
by Aarthi Mohan Aug 08, 2025
In a contemplative conversation with STIR, Somali-Italian architect Omar Degan outlines a biennale shaped not by spectacle, but by resistance, pedagogy and presence.
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 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 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 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 Anushka Sharma May 06, 2025
STIR lists some of the most impactful satellite events and projects that will take over Venice in conjunction with the Biennale, reaffirming the event's idea to coalesce Intelligens.
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 Dec 17, 2024
STIRred 2024: A review of architectural biennales and design exhibitions that offered new perspectives and voices on pertinent issues, including the climate crisis and global resource parity.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Dec 03, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Paul Finch about the World Architecture Festival’s history, this year’s winning project, coming to Miami next year and what makes this festival unique.
by Almas Sadique Oct 07, 2024
The architectural festival hosts exhibitions, symposiums, installations and satellite programmes that explore and illustrate novel ways of building with repurposed materials.
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 Anmol Ahuja Nov 22, 2023
In the inaugural edition of the Metaverse Architecture Biennale, ZHA principal Patrik Schumacher, curator Sergey Nadtochiy, and STIR’s Amit Gupta ruminate upon the “presence of the future”.
by Aarthi Mohan Oct 24, 2023
STIR provides a glimpse into Seoul's architectural and urban transformation at the 4th Biennale, where creativity shapes the city’s future.
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 Sep 18, 2023
Metaverse Architecture Biennale 2023, with STIR as a media partner, journeys beyond the virtual realm into the future of design.
make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
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