Open House Milano celebrates its tenth edition on 17–18 May 2025 with over 100 locations opening their doors to the public, offering a rare chance to explore the city's architectural identity from the inside. Organised by Open House Milano, the festival continues to reveal the hidden layers of the city—from landmark urban regeneration sites to private homes, design studios, cultural venues, and hybrid spaces—through free guided tours and thematic routes.
Catalonia in Venice_Water Parliaments. Graphic Design: Arauna+Paratext
Water is not just a resource—it is a voice, a right, a system of relationships. Water shapes landscapes, communities, and futures. It nourishes, resists, and demands justice.
Poster for Intelligens Play Lab Happenings — a series of street games by children during the opening days of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.
Children to launch unofficial street happenings during opening days of Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, exploring global challenges through play. During the opening days of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, the Architectural Thinking School for Children will stage a series of unofficial street happenings across Venice as part of their ongoing project Intelligens Play Lab. At its heart lies a question: How does children's intellect develop mechanisms for solving contemporary global challenges through the universally understood medium of play? In the spirit of reclaiming public space, children will activate Venetian streets with street games they have designed themselves—each one tackling themes such as forced migration, climate change, dictatorship, war, and more. These happenings temporarily transform the city into a public laboratory of ideas, where children's perspectives become both the method and the message. Just decades ago, the streets of Venice—like those in many cities—belonged to children. Through the improvisational logic of play, they rehearsed futures they could not yet name. Intelligens Play Lab revives that logic, now focused on the pressing crises of today. The project is developed by the Architectural Thinking School for Children, a think tank of children and interdisciplinary professionals. Founded in Minsk in 2016 and relocated to Lisbon in 2022, the School works at the intersection of architecture, pedagogy, and social research—empowering children aged 5 to 15, many of them migrants, to become full participants in cultural life.
The Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo at the 19th International Venice Architecture Biennale presents Lulebora nuk çel më. Emerging Assemblages, a sensorial exploration of rupture and reconfiguration in Kosovo’s shifting landscapes: the uprooting of ecological relationships and embodied knowledge systems under climate pressure, and the new forms of sense-making that emerge in liminal spaces of uncertainty.
'Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler' presents the extraordinary personal history and work of the leading modern architect Harry Seidler (1923, Vienna–2006, Sydney), with a particular focus on the artists he worked with and commissioned. The exhibition will feature artists who collaborated on projects with Seidler such as Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Lin Utzon and Sol LeWitt, as well as the famed Italian structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi.
As a result of the ideas competition organized by the governments of Sweden, Finland, and Norway in 1958, Sverre Fehn's Nordic Pavilion won first prize, becoming one of the most significant works of his career and one of the most outstanding Scandinavian architectural achievements during the mid-20th century. Designed to create a space at the Venice Biennale for the biennial exhibitions of these countries, Fehn's proposal addressed several key architectural challenges—ranging from its integration with the site and incorporation of pre-existing elements to the handling of physical boundaries and uniform natural lighting. His design explored the interaction between architecture and trees, the flexibility in the exhibition space, the filtering of light, the connection between interior and exterior, the concept of movement through space, and the display of artworks.
