Architecture & Design — Venice 2027 theme and OMA's Rome masterplan signal architecture's pivot toward material reality and long-term urban stewardship

Architecture & Design · 2026-05-20

The most consequential development today is the announcement of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2027 theme — 'Do Architecture' — by curators Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, which explicitly calls for architecture grounded in material reality, local craft, and coexistence. This is not decorative rhetoric; it will set the curatorial and competitive frame for the world's most influential architecture…