Inspiring New Connections – The 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura with Brickworks

The 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura is a much-anticipated event in the world of architecture and design. To celebrate the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura, Brickworks has created a bar and events to connect the biggest contingent of Australian architects that have ever attended.

Located on the Grand Canal in the beautiful city of Venice, the Brickworks Bar offered a physical hub for connection and sharing of ideas during the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura. Focused on creating an experience, Brickworks focuses on providing opportunities for architects to connect through events, bars and dinners. Though hosted by Brickworks, the hub is about connecting those in the architecture and design community, building relationships and nurturing fond memories.

This year, Brickworks has also offered a study trip as a way of extending its involvement in the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura. The trip takes architects on a historical journey through Italy and allows for the opportunity to immerse themselves in architecture not usually experienced. The initiative includes a tour of Brickworks’s Italian partner, S.Anselmo, where one can see how beautifully handmade bricks are created.

The tours also offer an opportunity to discuss learnings around sustainability and where things are moving from an architectural practice point of view. This year, Australian and US-based architects took part in the tour, which also promotes valuable cross-cultural networking.

Focused on creating an experience, Brickworks focuses on providing opportunities for architects to connect through events, bars and dinners.

The Australia pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura features a copper reconstruction of the Empire Hotel in Queenstown. Named Unsettling Queenstown, the pavilion aims to draw attention to the history and impact of colonialism and extraction by focusing on several settlements named Queenstown. Core to the exhibition is talking to First Nations individuals and the wider community about their relationship to place and thinking about justice and equity in issues of sustainability and in environmental and architectural discourse.

This year, the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura welcomed a record contingent of over 300 architects. The annual celebration of architecture and new connections in the industry continues to nurture kinship, growth and creativity among architects from Australia and beyond.

This year, the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura welcomed a record contingent of over 300 architects.