A look at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021

The exhibition evoking the Mbai Caves, by Kenyan architects Cave_Bureau (Source: Francesco Galli)

Much of the twice delayed 17th Architecture Biennale, which has just opened in the northern Italian port city, often crosses over into the latter. Participants from 46 countries tackled the arduous, vast question asked by Hashim Sarkis, the Lebanon-born dean of architecture and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who curated this edition: “How will we live together?”