The Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, curated by Hashim Sarkis, poses the question “How will we live together?” and calls on architects “to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together.” Sarkis’s provocation is a compelling pitch, on the grandiose stage of the Biennale, in a time marked by continuing acts of racial injustice, settler colonialism, police brutality, and extensive damage, destruction and dispossession of Indigenous peoples’ lands.
Australia has the privilege of being one of only 29 countries with a permanent pavilion within the Giardini della Biennale, though this year operated differently, with some pavilions – including Australia’s –moving to a virtual exhibition to manage the risks posed by the pandemic. The Biennale provides an unparalleled platform for the profession to display its architecture – its projects, scholarship and responses to pressing challenges in the world. Within this context,
