This year's theme: the intelligence of the earth – a collective knowledge accumulated over millennia that is now threatened. Photo courtesy of the owner.
Lebanon will be represented at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale by the project “The Land Remembers – al-Ared tatazakar,” designed by the Collective for Architecture Lebanon (CAL). The collective was founded by Shereen Doummar, Elias Tamer, Edouard Souhaid and Lynn Chamoun.The Biennale, which runs from May 10 to Nov. 23, 2025, will follow the theme “IntelligenS: Natural. Artificial. Collective,” proposed by general commissioner Carlo Ratti. The final syllable, “genS,” meaning “people,” refers to contrasting human intelligence with artificial intelligence, Tamer and Souhaid explain to L’Orient-Le Jour.“We decided to address a critical issue by presenting alternative ways to regenerate the soil of southern Lebanon, which has been devastated by thousands of tons of heavy munitions [by Israel], including internationally banned white...
Lebanon will be represented at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale by the project “The Land Remembers – al-Ared tatazakar,” designed by the Collective for Architecture Lebanon (CAL). The collective was founded by Shereen Doummar, Elias Tamer, Edouard Souhaid and Lynn Chamoun.The Biennale, which runs from May 10 to Nov. 23, 2025, will follow the theme “IntelligenS: Natural. Artificial. Collective,” proposed by general commissioner Carlo Ratti. The final syllable, “genS,” meaning “people,” refers to contrasting human intelligence with artificial intelligence, Tamer and Souhaid explain to L’Orient-Le Jour.“We decided to address a critical issue by presenting alternative ways to regenerate the soil of southern Lebanon, which has been devastated by thousands of tons of heavy munitions [by Israel], including...