May 13, 2025

The porch, as part of the American home, is more than an architectural feature: It’s a viewpoint into the country’s changing cultural (and literal) climate. Since the mid-19th-century golden age of this classic U.S. domestic design element…

May 12, 2025

After two days of talks in Switzerland, trade negotiators for the US and China announced on Monday a major de-escalation in tariffs. You can follow Bloomberg News for developments as markets react. 

May 12, 2025

The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale is officially open to the public. Curated by Carlo Ratti, who recently spoke with Archinect about the event, the Biennale features over 750 participants responding to themes of intelligence forms, adaptation, inclusivity, and collaboration.

May 12, 2025

The Kingdom of Bahrain won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, and special mentions were given to the Holy See and Great Britain—what about the other national pavilions? Here we present six pavilions in three pairs: pavilions that reflect a few shared themes we discovered when exploring the Arsenale and the Giardini during the Biennale's vernissage.

May 12, 2025

Nel corso di una visita alla Biennale di Venezia, tra Arsenale e Giardini, si accavallano nella mente immagini, incontri, ricordi che sbiadiscono in fretta e a volte delusioni.

May 10, 2025

The Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 is open; the festival's official launch to the public marks the culmination of months of excitement in the industry's global circles.

May 10, 2025

Susan Chin, Rod Bigelow, and Peter MacKeith worked together to create Porch: An Architecture of Generosity, which is this year's US Pavilion. It was presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale, exploring porches as the archetype of American architecture.

May 10, 2025

Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. tema je ovogodišnjeg, 19. po redu Venecijanskog bijenalea arhitekture. U vreme kada umetna inteligencija često prestiže ljudsku i kada mašine odmenjuju kolektive, ova tema deluje posebno važna za umetnike koji oblikuju svet.

May 10, 2025

Curated by Carlo Ratti, the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., unites 66 national pavilions, with debut appearances from Azerbaijan, Oman, Qatar, and Togo. Set across Giardini, Arsenale, and Venice’s historic city center…

May 9, 2025

From 3D-printing with bacteria to cocktail-mixing humanoids, from the future of space suits to reassurances about climate change, this mind-boggling rollercoaster of a show could do with a more focused curatorial vision.

May 9, 2025

A large exhibit on how Americans use the porch serves as a reminder of how this public-private space can foster dialogue and neighborliness.

May 9, 2025

Bright spots in curator Carlo Ratti’s teeming assemblage of eco-focused exhibits at the 19th architecture biennale include an almost poetic moment for concrete and organised anarchy for priced-out young Venetians

May 9, 2025

Over the past three days, the Dezeen team has been on the ground at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Here are their picks of the best national pavilions from this year's event.

May 9, 2025

The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale has all the looks of a must-see event as we celebrate its official opening this weekend in the Giardini, Arsenale, and other satellite locations spread across the floating city.

May 8, 2025

This year's US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale explores porches as an archetype of American architecture, with a zigzagging mass-timber canopy forming a shelter outside its neoclassical building.

May 8, 2025

For the US Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, a team of architects explores the American porch. As visitors approach the pavilion, titled PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, the familiar neoclassical form of the 1930 American Palladian-style building…

May 8, 2025

Biennale architettura Al via domani la 19/a edizione della Mostra internazionale, quest'anno guidata da Carlo Ratti e intitolata «Intelligens, Natural, Artificial, Collective»: si indagano strade alternative all'interno di una disciplina che spesso è stata complice delle alterazioni degli ecosistemi.

May 7, 2025

What comes to mind when you think of a typical American porch? White columns? Haint blue ceilings? Perhaps a pair of rocking chairs and chilled glasses of sweet tea?

May 7, 2025

The U.S. Pavilion, namely its accompanying site-specific installation and exhibitions, opens to the public soon for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale…

May 7, 2025

As always, AN is on the ground to report on happenings at the world’s largest architecture festival, the Biennale Architettura 2025—no longer the “Venice Architecture Biennale,” per updated style directions from La Biennale di Venezia.

May 7, 2025

The U.S.’ mass timber pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, “Porch: An Architecture of Generosity,” features contributions from 52 firms exploring the porch as both vernacular form and social catalyst.

May 7, 2025

The 2025 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale is hosting a total of 65 National Pavilions. Among them, four countries, Azerbaijan, Oman, Qatar, and Togo, will be participating for the first time.

May 7, 2025

May 6, 2025

With just hours to go until the start of the Biennale, Venice is preparing to welcome its 19th edition, which will feature both established names and new entrants. Here is a preview of each pavilion.

May 6, 2025

Peter MacKeith, Susan Chin, and Rod Bigelow, the co-commissioners for this year's official U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, have shared the first images of the completed installation of PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity. 

May 6, 2025

Curator Carlo Ratti invites over 750 participants from around the world to explore the themes of natural, artificial and collective intelligence.

May 6, 2025

Set within a prefabricated timber structure, the exhibition invites visitors to experience the porch as a social and cultural threshold.

As part of the 19th International Biennale Architettura of La Biennale di Venezia, Places was invited to curate a library on the theme of the U.S. Pavilion exhibition, PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity. 

May 5, 2025

American PORCH takes center stage at Venice Biennale 2025 in a way that redefines connection, culture, and creativity. From May 10, American PORCH takes center stage at Venice Biennale 2025 with boldness, beauty, and purpose.

May 5, 2025

Oltre all’esposizione principale, il programma prevede eventi collaterali, talk, installazioni urbane e performance, che trasformeranno Venezia in un luogo di confronto aperto e dinamico

VENICE, Italy (May 5, 2025) – PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, the U.S. Pavilion’s presentation at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, will open to the public on May 10, 2025, with previews during the Biennale’s Vernissage from May 8–9, 2025.

May 2, 2025

The theme of the United States Pavilion highlights an American architectural typology that persists across geographies, communities, construction methods, and histories.

April 29, 2025

We selected sixteen national pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2025 that explore how architects can react to climate change with natural, artificial, and collective intelligence.

April 26 2025

In the age of America First, this year’s US pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is a good reminder of American principles of generosity

April 25, 2025

The 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will take place from 10 May to 23 November 2025. This year’s theme is ‘Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.’ and is curated by architect Carlo Ratti, director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT.

April 22, 2025

The 19th International Architecture Exhibition, also known as the Venice Architecture Biennale, will take place from Saturday, May 10, to Sunday, November 23, 2025. A special preview will be held on May 8 and 9, just before the main event starts.

April 21, 2025

Main exhibition: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective

Carlo Ratti’s big idea for this year’s architecture biennale is that we should perhaps let go a little of the utopian fantasy of instantaneous decarbonisation and instead think about how architecture might allow us to adapt for a fast-changing, overheating and watery future.

April 16, 2025

Who doesn’t love a porch?  

More to the point, who doesn’t have a good porch-based story or memory? Most Arkansans probably do. Porches are as inextricably bound up in our lives as huntin’, fishin’ or churchgoin’…

April 16, 2025

The 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia opens on May 10, with preview days for professionals and press on May 7, 8, and 9. Titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., 

April 15, 2025

Organizers of the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia have released new renderings of PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, offering the first visual preview of what visitors will encounter when the exhibition opens on May 10, 2025.

April 14, 2025

Organizers for this year’s U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale have shared new renderings detailing the presentation PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity and its exploration of the typology common to the architecture of the American South. 

April 14, 2025

It’s well established that the U.S.Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale will take inspiration from the American porch.

April 13, 2025

This week commissioners for the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale gave a glimpse of their upcoming exhibit about porches. Sign up to keep up: Subscribe to get the Design Edition newsletter every Sunday.

April 13, 2025

If there's one thing Americans can probably agree on, it's that the nation is divided. So the creators of the United States Pavilion at the International Architecture Biennale in Venice, which opens to the public on May 10, are prompting visitors to think about the role that architecture and design...

April 11, 2025

Contrary to a hoax April Fool’s post on Instagram by Hyperallergic, the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia has not been cancelled and will soon debut in Italy.

April 11, 2025

Reimagining Community: The Porch as a Catalyst for Unity in American Architecture. "At a time when division seems to permeate our nation, one architectural concept is being thrust into the spotlight: the American porch. The porch, that beloved architectural element that blends the public with the private, serves as a nostalgic reminder of what it means to be together.

April 11, 2025

If there’s one thing Americans can probably agree on, it’s that the nation is divided. So the creators of the United States Pavilion at the International Architecture Biennale in Venice, which opens to the public on May 10, are prompting visitors to think about the role that architecture and design could play in mending us back together.

April 11, 2025
At the Architecture Biennale, the U.S. Says ‘Come Sit by Me’: To heal a nation, the U.S. Pavilion in Venice showcases the surprising permutation of the porch,

The U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale will showcase 52 projects that embody the theme Porch: An Architecture of Generosity, highlighting the attribute as a space for community and civic engagement…

Organizers of the U.S. Pavilion have announced the 52 finalists who will participate in the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Each project responds to the brief co-commissioners Peter MacKeith, Susan Chin, and Rod Bigelow shared which asked for works that center the American porch, in all of its cultural, political, and social dimensions.

The organizers behind the U.S. Pavilion for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale have selected 52 projects to feature as part of the pavilion’s exhibition. Chosen from a nationwide open call, the projects will feature as part of the PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity exhibition which will “highlight the cultural, architectural, and environmental significance of this iconic American typology.”

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (February 3, 2025) – Today, the Organizers of the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia announce the selection of 52 projects to feature in PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity...

AN editors rounded up the top news stories of 2024 that have shaped architecture and design discourse. This year, we saw follow up on stories we’ve been tracking for some time now. The year also had its share of new unveilings and scrapped projects. There were stories that made us smile amid a world that sometimes feels chaotic and others that had us grabbing the popcorn bucket to find out what could possibly happen next.

The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, in collaboration with DesignConnects and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, has announced an open call for design proposals for the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition, titled PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, will reflect the significance of the porch as an enduring architectural element and a cultural symbol in American life.

The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, in partnership with DesignConnects and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, invites architects, designers, artists and creatives from across the United States and its territories to submit exhibit design proposals for PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, the U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, in partnership with DesignConnects and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, invites architects, designers, artists and creatives from across the United States and its territories to submit exhibit design proposals for PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, the U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are featuring four calls in search of Venice Biennale design proposals centered on the ethos of the porch, architectural and urban design schemes for three municipalities in Spain…

For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are featuring four calls in search of Venice Biennale design proposals centered on the ethos of the porch…

Organizers of the official U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Biennale Architettura of La Biennale di Venezia have shared an Open Call for submissions related to the recently announced theme 'PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity.' 

Organizers of the official U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Biennale Architettura of La Biennale di Venezia have shared an Open Call for submissions related to the recently announced theme 'PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity.' 

The Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas in partnership with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and independent consultancy DesignConnects has formally launched an open call seeking design exhibition proposals for the United States Pavilion at the forthcoming Venice Architecture Biennale.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in collaboration with the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and Design Connects, is thrilled to co-organize the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia under the theme “PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity.”

The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, in collaboration with DesignConnects and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, has been chosen by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairsto represent the United States at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. The selected theme, "PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity,"

Co-commissioners of the U.S. Pavilion are now accepting proposals from architects interested in exhibiting their work at the 19th International Biennale Architettura of La Biennale di Venezia. The co-commissioners encourage submissions that explore the multidimensional role porches play in American culture from “citizens, states, and territories nationwide.”Description goes here

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (December 3, 2024) – The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, in partnership with DesignConnects and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, invites architects, designers, artists and creatives from across the United States and its territories…

The Department of State announces the selection of The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, in partnership with Design Connects and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to represent the United States at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025 with their exhibition, “PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity.”

Venice’s famed Giardini della Biennale is set to get a heaping taste of the Natural State beginning next May.

As announced by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, joined in partnership with independent consultancy DesignConnects and Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, have been selected to commission, organize, and curate the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

A delegation from Arkansas will be traveling to Italy to represent the United States in its official pavilion at next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. 

We are thrilled to announce exciting news for the AIA New York and New York City architecture community: Susan Chin, FAIA, Hon. ASLA, founder of Design Connects, has been appointed as co-commissioner of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, working with lead co-commissioner Peter MacKeith, Assoc. AIA, dean of the Fay Jones School at University of Arkansas, and co-commissioner Rod Bigelow, executive director of Crystal Bridges Museum.

Consider the porch: A low-tech structure typically made of wood or stone that plays an oversized role in American culture. From August Wilson’s Pittsburgh, Harper Lee’s Alabama, Spike Lee’s New York, to John Steinbeck’s California; artists lean on porches as literary devices for telling complex stories about civic life, and as liminal spaces that divide our public and private worlds pregnant with meaning.