{"id":10743,"date":"2025-11-26T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/?p=10743"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:29:05","slug":"amateur-architecture-studios-wang-shu-and-lu-wenyu-to-curate-venice-architecture-biennale-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/amateur-architecture-studios-wang-shu-and-lu-wenyu-to-curate-venice-architecture-biennale-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Architecture Studio’s Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu to curate Venice Architecture Biennale 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Wang<\/div>\n

Amateur Architecture Studio<\/a>\u00a0founders Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have been chosen as the curators of the 2027 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale<\/a>, with aims to combat “the death of architecture”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two Chinese architects, who have won numerous awards, established their own studio in 1997 and also founded the architecture department at the China Academy of Art in 2003 and the School of Architecture in 2007.<\/p>\n

“It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu as artistic directors of the Architecture Department,” biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said.<\/p>\n

“Their vision, deeply rooted in the memory of places and in the knowledge of construction processes, represents today an essential voice in the international debate on architecture and on the meaning of inhabiting the world’s spaces.”<\/p>\n

Conceptual experiments “are often divorced from reality”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The duo said they will try to meet the challenge of curating the Venice Architecture Biennale<\/a> and argued that excessive conceptualisation and commercialisation have led to architecture that is divorced from reality.<\/p>\n

“In the current world, the rapid and multiple changes in architecture are more a phenomenon of appearance, the result of excessive conceptualisation or marked commercialisation,” Lu and Wang said.<\/p>\n

“Conceptual experiments driven to extremes are often divorced from reality and over-commercialisation tends to be merely popular and short-lived,” they continued.<\/p>\n

The two architects argue that this trend could lead to the “death of architecture”.<\/p>\n

“This phenomenon changes rapidly in order to survive, breaking away from the connection with the real place,” they said. “It will lead to the death of architecture. Therefore, architecture becomes a kind of delusional expression about the future.”<\/p>\n