Can’t make it to Italy? Here are the virtual exhibitions to see at the Venice Architecture Biennale

Originally published on Archpaper.com

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If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you won’t be visiting Venice any time soon. But that’s fine, neither will I. You might have heard that the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, one year delayed, kicked off in late May to significantly smaller crowds—and presumably a significantly smaller Aperol bill—than usual. You might have also heard that curator Hashim Sarkis’s Biennale centers around a question: How will we live together? The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the stoppages in cultural production it brought about, has surely colored the responses. Numerous exhibitors, including the national pavilions in the Giardini and standalone teams at the Arsenale, have produced ways for audiences to engage with their projects from afar, online or otherwise. In this way, the 17th International Architecture Biennale differs from its predecessors in its messaging, but also in its media.

Here, AN has singled out projects that can be enjoyed and experienced without any knowledge about what’s been built in Venice…

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Originally published on Archpaper.com