Venice Architecture Biennale 2027: Wang Shu's Do
The Venice Architecture Biennale 2027 will be the first edition in the show’s 47-year history to be co-directed by a husband-and-wife studio that has built almost everything in salvaged tile and recycled brick — and the first to give equal billing to the woman whom the Pritzker jury did not name. When the 20th International Architecture Exhibition opens to the public on 8 May 2027 at the Giardini and Arsenale, Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu — co-founders of Amateur Architecture Studio in Hangzhou — will become the first Chinese curators ever to take the directorship, working under the theme Do Architecture — For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality. The pre-opening runs 6–7 May; the show closes 21 November 2027. ...