The British Council has just announced the team set to represent the United Kingdom at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025. The selected team comprises experts from the UK and Kenya, including Nairobi-based Cave_bureau. Scheduled to run from May 24 to November 23, 2025, the UK Pavilion hopes to ignite meaningful conversations about architecture’s impact on communities and the planet.
For its fall season of architecture events, the Royal Academy’s working theme is “Architecture and Freedom: a changing connection,” in a program conceived and organized by Architecture Programme Curator, Owen Hopkins. One of these events was a recent lecture by Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, and ardent promoter of Parametricism. In his lecture, what starts out with a brief exercise in damage control over the barrage of criticism recently endured by the firm, emerges as an impassioned discussion of architectural politics, design philosophies, and social imperatives.
