The Jakob+Macfarlane agency will represent France at the 19th Architecture Biennale in Venice

The proposal Living with/living with of the Jakob+Macfarlane agency, formed by architects Dominique Jakob and Brendan Macfarlane, associated with the Martin Duplantier Architectes and Eric Daniel-Lacombre EDL architects agencies, will represent France at the 19^e Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025, the French Institute announced Thursday, December 26. This Biennale will be held from May 24 to November 23, 2025.

Architecture facing climate challenges

Living with/living withproposed by the curators of the French Pavilion, Dominique Jakob, Brendan MacFarlane, Éric Daniel-Lacombe and Martin Duplantier, aims to « question the capacity of architecture to face the climate challenges, conflicts and instability of the world »specifies the press release. « In this world of multiple crises and turbulent changes, of conflicts that multiply, and of climate that becomes unpredictable, the world where millions of inhabitants are displaced and others have their homes in areas increasingly exposed to risks , permanent instability is a state where we must learn to live with it. How can we continue to live on this planet by inventing, with these challenges, new ways of life? »is the question this project intends to answer, explains the curatorial team.

The French pavilion (in the Giardini in Venice) will be closed in 2025 for major work but the exhibition will be installed in the “construction site”in the form of a “light structure designed as an inclusive shelter, an open laboratory (…)”according to the press release. The project will be detailed in Paris on February 12 in the presence of the winning team, at the Cité de la Mode et du Design (Paris 13^e), designed by the Jakob+Macfarlane agency. This architecture, town planning and design agency, created in 1998, works on applied research to the development of architecture in tune with environmental emergencies and the challenges of the 21st century. She notably designed the French University of Egypt and many other urban sites in France and internationally.