The Italian Embassy in Vietnam organised in Hanoi the workshop "Waiting for the Architecture Biennale 2025: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective."
The event offered the local public an in-depth look at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, which will be held from 10 May to 23 November.
The exhibition, curated by Carlo Ratti, is conceived as an invitation to rethink the definition of "intelligence" (and architecture) in the sense of the ability to adapt to our surroundings with limited resources, knowledge or power. The workshop was introduced by the Italian Ambassador to Vietnam, Marco della Seta, and included speeches by Roberto Beraldo, President of the Order of Architects of Venice, and Trung Mai, Vietnamese architect, urban planner and creator of the project "The Reincarnated Grid", which will be exhibited at the Architecture Biennale 2025.
"The Grid" was initially conceived as an intervention to reuse the abandoned Gia Lam train factory in Hanoi, delving into the latent spatial intelligence of the site and treating it as an archaeological imprint of Vietnam's industrial past.
By incorporating "The Reincarnated Grid" within the framework of the Biennale, the project recontextualises Vietnam's industrial heritage within a global dialogue and advocates an architecture that is both adaptive, responsive and deeply rooted in its socio-historical context.
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