"Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective" is the title of the 19th. International Architecture Exhibition scheduled from May 10 to Nov. 23, 2025 in Venice, at the Giardini, Arsenale and Forte Marghera.

Curated by architect and engineer Carlo Ratti, the Exhibition focuses on climate change and the responses that architecture must make by integrating different types of intelligence to rethink the built environment together.

Biennale Architettura Ph. Andrea Avezzù Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

The theme of the Architecture Biennale 2025

As Carlo Ratti explains, the Exhibition is meant to be a call to action for architecture to evolve in tune with a rapidly changing world. “The Architecture Biennale 2025 opens at a time of global upheaval. The climate crisis is no longer a future threat: it is our present reality. Mitigation alone is no longer enough: it is adaptation that must become central.”

To adapt, however, architecture must listen, learn, and react by drawing on all forms of intelligence: natural, artificial, and collective. Hence the title Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective, a neologism whose final part, “gens,” means ‘people’ in Latin, “an invitation to experience intelligence beyond the current limited focus on AI and digital technologies and to demonstrate how we can adapt to tomorrow's world with confidence and optimism.”

Elephant Chapel Ph.Marco Zorzanello Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

The Circular Economy Manifesto

For the first time, the Exhibition features more than 750 participants, architects and engineers, mathematicians and climate scientists, philosophers and artists, cooks and coders, writers and carvers, farmers and designers, who will bring to life a rich narrative of content, input, projects and encounters.

However, the Architecture Biennale is also aiming for facts: through the Circular Economy Manifesto launched by Carlo Ratti, with the guidance of Arup and the contribution of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, it wants to promote an increasingly sustainable model that embraces circular and nature-friendly principles.

Architecture as Trees, Trees as Architecture Ph. Marco Zorzanello Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Saviola Group's important contribution

In line with the goals of circularity and sustainability promoted by the Exhibition, the Saviola Group, a sponsor of the Biennale 2025, provided the material for some of the column coverings used in the general exhibition design, for the communication panels placed in the Arsenal as well as for the realization of the Special Projects “A Satellite Symphony” and “Speakers' Corner.”

A Satellite Symphony Ph. Luca Capuano Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

The Ecological Panel®, produced by Saviola exclusively from post-consumer wood, meets the circularity goals promoted by the event: in fact, its use has avoided the felling of about 9,000 trees.

Alessandro Saviola, President of the Group, emphasized the strategy that involved the company in this important project: “We strongly believed in the partnership with the Biennale Architettura 2025 because of the values we share and to spread the sustainable proposal, thanks to the presence of our Ecological Panel®, during this internationally recognized and appreciated event.”

In the opening photo Speakers' corner, Ph. Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia