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Chronograms of Architecture Exhibition

Date: Thursday, 4 – 24 June 2026
Time: 19:15 – 21:00 SAST
Venue: UJ FADA Gallery, Auckland Park, JHB.

Exhibition opening/ Wine Bar: 19:15
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The Chronograms of Architecture Exhibition showcases diagrams by Charles Jencks, the renowned post-modern architecture writer and critic, spanning from 1920 to 2000, along with nine commissioned diagrams by contemporary architects, historians, and researchers. Previously exhibited in London and Brussels, it is being hosted in Johannesburg this year, ‘in conversation with’ the GSA; featuring student diagrams from the Architectural History and Theory module convened this year by Heidi Lu and developed through workshops with Lily Jencks.

Contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli / Marson Korbi marsonkorbi , Mario Carpo @mario_carpo , Charles L. Davis II / Curry J. Hackett @curryhackett , Lionel Devlieger @lioneldevlieger / Michael Ghyoot / Adam Przywara / Karen Steukers / Arne Vande Capelle / Louise Vanhee @louise_vanhee , Maria Fedorchenko/ Yeliz Abdurahman, Francesca Hughes @francesca_hughes / Urtzi Grau @urtzigrau , MOULD @mould_earth , and Bryony Roberts @bryony_roberts_studio / Abriannah Aiken @abri.aiken, Ilze Wolff @ilzewolff and Ziko Petse @ziko.img together with Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia @waithinktak and @happeningatthegsa

The exhibition coincides with a symposium taking place at the FADA Auditorium ( June, 16:00 – 19:15)

Curated by Nick Axel @alucidwake , Nikolaus Hirsch, Lily Jencks @lilyjencksstudio , Heidi Lu @other_histories , Anya Smirnova @anya_smrnv, and Eszter Steierhoffer @esteierhoffer

Graphic design by Fred Swart @dieateljee

The exhibition is developed in collaboration with @e_flux Architecture, Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House @thecosmichouse

#chronogramsofarchitecture
#thecosmichouse
#charlesjencks
#happeningatthegsa
#unitsystemafrica

Ten years ago today I started working for e-flux Architecture. If these past ten years have taught me anything, it's just how much can be done, how much can be made, how much can happen, how much can change, how much we can change, in ten years. Here's to all of that, and to the next ten years.

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

It’s difficult to sum up the transformative, restorative, energizing 3 weeks I spent around the turn of the year in Brazil together with my family and @architecture.rietveld. But as I prepare to move to Tokyo for 3 months with @fangedluamena, here’s an attempt, if for no other reason than to allow those memories and experiences to sink in while making space for new ones yet to be formed.

Thank you all deeply to those who made this adventure possible.

@architecture.rietveld
@marianvanbodegraven
@nlinbrasil
@escoladacidade
@maribalassal
@lau_pappalardo
@fabricioforg
@marcoartigas

2025 has been one for the books!

Nick Axel and @my.ma.g in conversation
@freeschoolof produced by @mylomark
@alucidwake

Nick Axel and @my.ma.g in conversation
@freeschoolof produced by @mylomark
@alucidwake

Nick Axel and @my.ma.g in conversation
@freeschoolof produced by @mylomark
@alucidwake

Nick Axel and @my.ma.g in conversation
@freeschoolof produced by @mylomark
@alucidwake

Nick Axel and @my.ma.g in conversation
@freeschoolof produced by @mylomark
@alucidwake

Nick Axel and @my.ma.g in conversation
@freeschoolof produced by @mylomark
@alucidwake

The 2025 Biennale comes to an end. I feel fortunate to have helped shape this edition alongside Carlo and his remarkable team. A big thank you to them, and to the nearly 800 participants who brought this show to life.

Repost @labiennale
The doors of the #BiennaleArchitettura2025 have just closed. Many thanks to Curator #CarloRatti (@crassociati), to the Participants, to the National Participations, to the many Collateral Events, and to all the people who visited #IntelliGens at the Giardini, at the Arsenale, in #Venice, as well as on our website and social media channels.

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Si chiudono le porte della #BiennaleArchitettura2025. Un grazie al Curatore #CarloRatti (@crassociati), ai Partecipanti, alle Partecipazioni Nazionali, ai tanti Eventi Collaterali e a tutte le persone che hanno visitato #IntelliGens ai Giardini, all’Arsenale, a #Venezia ma anche sul nostro sito web e sui nostri canali social.

#LaBiennaleDiVenezia #BiennaleArchitettura
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With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

With just a couple weekends left in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, I felt it was a good moment to revisit and more thoroughly present the catalogue I edited of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Beyond serving as a compendium for the 300+ projects featured in the exhibition, the catalogue embodies its structural principles while contextualizing, expanding on, and diving deep into its major themes. The 15 new essays and 6 "impossible conversations” by a luminary, multigenerational set of authors serve as meaningful contributions to the Intelligens in their own right. And while the exhibition is about to close, the catalogue remains.

The catalogue features essays by Tim Berners-Lee (@tim.berners.lee), Holly Jean Buck, Mario Carpo, Ivano Dionigi, Edward L. Glaeser, Orit Halpern (@orithalpern), B. Jack Hanly (@b_jackhanly), Paola Malanotte, Antoine Picon, Martin Rees, Yamina Saheb, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Deyan Sudjic, Julia Watson (@juliawatsondesign) & Lyla June Johnston, and Albena Yaneva (@albena.yaneva).

It also features “impossible conversations" between Stefano Boeri (@stefano_boeri) and Ebenezer Howard, Giorgos Kallis and Thomas Robert Malthus, Carlo Ratti and Christopher Alexander, Andrea Rinaldo and John Ruskin, Daniela Rus and Isaac Asimov, and Ersilia Vaudo (@vaudoersilia) and Gerard K. O'Neill.

The catalogue was designed by the ever brilliant Bänziger Hug Kasper Florio (@samuelbaenziger @olivierhug @larissakasper @rosarioflorio), and published by Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale). Huge thanks the incredible Biennale team, Flavia Fossa Margutti (@era_flacarla), Maddalena Pietragnoli (@maddina_mai), Joern Brandmeyer, and everyone else for making this beauty a reality. And of course, thanks to Carlo Ratti (@crassociati), Daniele Belleri (@danielebellerijaforte), Claire Gorman Hanly (@claire_go), and everyone else from the curatorial team for the opportunity, support, and collaboration.

Sick Architecture, edited by Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel, Guillermo S. Arsuaga, and e-flux Architecture, published by MIT Press, is now out.

Princeton/SoA launch: November 6
NYC/e-flux launch: November 7
London/AA launch: November 28

Supported by the Graham Foundation, the Princeton School of Architecture, the Barr Ferree Publication Fund, and Stimuleringsfonds.

@mitpress @e_flux @princetonarchitecture @grahamfoundation @stimuleringsfonds

Sick Architecture, edited by Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel, Guillermo S. Arsuaga, and e-flux Architecture, published by MIT Press, is now out.

Princeton/SoA launch: November 6
NYC/e-flux launch: November 7
London/AA launch: November 28

Supported by the Graham Foundation, the Princeton School of Architecture, the Barr Ferree Publication Fund, and Stimuleringsfonds.

@mitpress @e_flux @princetonarchitecture @grahamfoundation @stimuleringsfonds

Sick Architecture, the book (@mitpress), is coming. Launching in London at the AA (@aaschool) on November 28. Launching in the US (NYC/@e_flux and Princeton/@princetonarchitecture) early November. Stay tuned.

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What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

What an absolutely incredible trip to Johannesburg. For a city with so many layers and different geographies, I feel so fortunate to have been guided along and accompanied in grasping at its whole (in vain, perhaps, but what was gained in the effort is always invaluable). And to ground all of that through engaging with the students of @happeningatthegsa, this has undoubtedly been a trip whose lessons, experiences, and friendships will be felt for many years to come. I already can't wait to be back again next June!

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Architecture Week Lecture - Nick Axel
On e-flux Architecture and Chronograms of Architecture

Date: Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Time: 17:30 for 18:00 – 20:00
Venue: GSA @JBS Park
RSVP: See in Linktree

Nick Axel is an architect, editor, educator, and curator deeply engaged in architectural discourse and practice. Since 2016, he has served as Deputy Editor of e-flux Architecture, leading the platform’s growth and producing over 60 editorial projects and publications in collaboration with biennials, museums, universities, and cultural institutions worldwide. Nick is also Head of the Architectural Design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where he directs a three-year Bachelor’s curriculum that blends architecture, research, theory, and art.

He was Editor of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti. From 2020 to 2022, he curated Architecture and chaired the Architectural Advisory Board at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, organizing competitions and commissioning projects such as the Babyn Yar Synagogue and the Museum of the History of the Tragedy. He has edited numerous books, including most recently Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., Sick Architecture, Chronograms of Architecture, and Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory."

Nick studied architecture and philosophy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and later earned a Masters in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he investigated the political and legal dimensions of extractive industries in the U.S. His research continued at Forensic Architecture and DAAR, focusing on human rights and decolonial spatial strategies in Palestine. Alongside his research, Nick has taught architecture, theory, and visual culture and served as Managing Editor at Volume Magazine. There, he honed his editorial skills and began fostering communities of practitioners to advance critical architectural discourse, a pursuit he actively continues at e-flux Architecture and beyond.

#happeningatthegsa #unitsystemafrica #architectureweek

Architecture Week Lecture - Nick Axel
On e-flux Architecture and Chronograms of Architecture

Date: Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Time: 17:30 for 18:00 – 20:00
Venue: GSA @JBS Park
RSVP: See in Linktree

Nick Axel is an architect, editor, educator, and curator deeply engaged in architectural discourse and practice. Since 2016, he has served as Deputy Editor of e-flux Architecture, leading the platform’s growth and producing over 60 editorial projects and publications in collaboration with biennials, museums, universities, and cultural institutions worldwide. Nick is also Head of the Architectural Design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where he directs a three-year Bachelor’s curriculum that blends architecture, research, theory, and art.

He was Editor of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti. From 2020 to 2022, he curated Architecture and chaired the Architectural Advisory Board at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, organizing competitions and commissioning projects such as the Babyn Yar Synagogue and the Museum of the History of the Tragedy. He has edited numerous books, including most recently Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., Sick Architecture, Chronograms of Architecture, and Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory."

Nick studied architecture and philosophy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and later earned a Masters in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he investigated the political and legal dimensions of extractive industries in the U.S. His research continued at Forensic Architecture and DAAR, focusing on human rights and decolonial spatial strategies in Palestine. Alongside his research, Nick has taught architecture, theory, and visual culture and served as Managing Editor at Volume Magazine. There, he honed his editorial skills and began fostering communities of practitioners to advance critical architectural discourse, a pursuit he actively continues at e-flux Architecture and beyond.

#happeningatthegsa #unitsystemafrica #architectureweek