19th Venice Architecture Biennale opens

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The focus of the world’s most prestigious architecture exhibition is on design for a changing world in the midst of a climate crisis. The exhibition showcases sustainable architecture and explores how cities can adapt to becoming more resilient to extreme heat.

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00:01The destructive force of lava is here reimagined as a sustainable resource,

00:06providing the raw material to construct entire cities.

00:12This is the visionary installation in Iceland's national pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

00:19In Iceland now we have on and off going lava eruptions

00:23and we thought that maybe it's a good time to think about that.

00:26Could we use it as a building material?

00:28And it has all the elements that we have in building materials today,

00:31like structure, glass-like or insulation.

00:35This is what the building material of the future could look like,

00:38solidified lava directly processed after an eruption.

00:42A practical proposal and a possible new direction for architecture.

00:47The challenge is to combine natural resources with human and artificial intelligence

00:52to rethink the built environment.

00:58To me there is no doubt that a key issue today, probably the main issue, is adaptation.

01:03It's adaptation to a changing climate, but more generally to a changing environment and a changing planet.

01:09And really this is a turf of architecture and that's where all of us, we can help.

01:13Fruits Under Glass explores architecture as protection for both people and the environment as a whole.

01:22The aim of the Biennale is to extend the role of architecture to deal with a world in crisis.

01:28A concept shared by the curators of the German pavilion.

01:33In their immersive installation, they demonstrate the impact of extreme heat.

01:40The job of the architects and landscape architects and urbanists, of course,

01:49is to convince politics and society that we have to build better.

01:56Participants in the Biennale addressed the global warming crisis,

02:01caused not only by ecological breakdown, but also by conflict.

02:06The project's circularity on the edge looks at the role of artificial intelligence

02:12in identifying and reusing materials from buildings damaged during the war in Ukraine.

02:22As Ukrainians we were living through devastating times and I think this project has helped us to express our feelings.

02:30Fleeing and constructive reaction, more than 750 participants are here with a common goal,

02:38to rethink how architecture can shape the world.

02:42You will also increase the role of the world in its borders and the areas that we have.

02:44We can see the whole world in our lives of airports.

02:46The zoo was outside of this country in my life and that it is not a common goal.

02:48The course is for the��us and for the city ofetics.

02:50We took the journey to the lands, it is an outreach for the city and the students,

02:52The 15th century, the city of the city that came out and the coastal where it was in our Nebraska.

02:54As a followers of the city of the city, it is straight to the city of the city that came down and the city that came across.

02:56It is very important for the city of the city.

02:58We can also make all the dangers of the energy of the city and the city.

03:00And I think there is a great talent of its neighborhood around the city.

03:02So that means there is where it is a handmade of the city that is in the city.

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