Out of 45 participating submissions for Chile's Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, the winning proposal has been recently announced. 'Reflective Intelligences,' the curatorial project by Serena Dambrosio, architect, researcher, and lecturer at Universidad Diego Portales; Nicolás Díaz Bejarano, architect, researcher, lecturer, and PhD candidate in Architecture and Urban Studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; and Linda Schilling Cuellar, architect, urban designer,educator and doctoral candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University.
The jury of the competition was composed of Gabriela García de Cortázar, Fabrizio Gallanti, María Berríos, Federico Martelli, Ruth Estévez, Gonzalo Carrasco, and Andrés Jaque. The commissioner of Chile's Pavilion, representing the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage, is Cristóbal Molina Baeza. The 19th Venice Architecture Biennale will be directed by Italian architect Carlos Ratti, with the theme 'Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.' According to the jury, the winning proposal questions the impact of buildings that have only recently entered the architectural discourse (data centers) in urban, territorial, material, and political terms, through a multimedia exhibition centered around a large table as a curatorial device.
