• Brief Encounters

    Veronica Simpson takes a trip to Venice and despite all the tourists declares it a very liveable city

  • Blueprint reviews Alejandro Aravena’s 15th Venice Architecture Biennale

    We share the very best of this year’s festival, curated by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena with the theme Reporting from the Front, and find a distinctive move away from starchitecture in favour of socially minded projects and research

  • 15th Venice Architecture Biennale preview

    Ahead of our full coverage in the next Blueprint (347), we preview some of the highlights of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by this year’s Pritzker Prize winner, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena. Running until November, the theme Reporting from the Front focuses on frontlines across the world where architects and communities are faced with complex challenges and urban issues

  • The beginning of a beautiful friendship

    Alejandro Aravena was largely unheard of outside of his home country of Chile until he won last year’s Pritzker Prize. Now, he’s directing this year’s International Architecture Exhibition in Venice...