He Manifesto recalls that what happened on October 29, 2024 in ValenciaSpain, is a recent example of the impacts of climate change. Unprecedented rains overflowed the city’s defenses, flooding roads, catching vehicles, immersing buildings, displacing communities and causing the loss of more than two hundred lives.
He also explains that this event is not an isolated case; the Dana who hit Valencia joins a growing list of places that deal with reality of climatic disruption and reminds us that no community is immune or safe from these situations.
Therefore, he proposes that the Built environment must evolve through a response developed within the framework of the Architecture Biennale 2025 entitled «Intelligence. Natural, artificial, collective »and that architecture must lead our response to an altered planet.
Signature of the manifesto in the frame of Rebuild
REBUILD 2025the largest European construction fair, has received the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchezalready Carlo RattiCommissioner of the 19th International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale di Venezia, to present and launch the ambitious Manifesto about the future of architecture, entitled: “Intelligens: Towards a New Architecture of Adaptation”. This, which has already been widely supported by the architects participating in the Biennale Architetura 2025, is already open to public adhesion.
The objective of the text is to highlight how architecture is adapting to attend to the current environmental challenge. The Dana who hit Valencia, the prolonged drought that Spain has threatened or the heat waves That, more and more, they affect the cities of the center and south of the country are examples of a trend that is lived nationwide, but also global.
In this way, the Manifesto states that architecture must assume a more urgent role: not only focus on mitigation – That is, in contributing to reducing emissions – but also in adaptation, helping to have built environments resist the impact of climate change.
On this, Carlo Ratti has exposed that “The message of the Biennale Architetura 2025 is urgent: the built environment must adapt to a transformed planet. Architecture, therefore, is no longer about the form, but about survival.
To face this challenge, it must be transformed, taking advantage of all the forms of intelligence that we possess: natural, artificial and collective. We will explore this at the Biennale di Venezia 2025, with more than 750 participants: architects and engineers, mathematicians and climatologists, philosophers and artists, chefs and programmers, writers and wooden carlters, farmers and fashion designers, among many other more profiles. ”
After the signing of manifest, The document has remained in a circulation phase. In this sense, many of the participants of the Biennale Architetura 2025 have already added their name to the initiative, which is now open to architects, researchers, students and citizens around the world. This is the link to the full text of the manifesto “Intelligens: Towards a New Architecture of Adaptation”.
May 10 in Venice begins the Biennale Architetura 2025
The Biennale Architetura 2025 will start this May 10 in Venice, extending until November 23, with a pre -opening on May 8 and 9. The one that is the most important architecture exhibition in the world, which in this edition is entitled “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.”, Will try to highlight the response of the architectural sector – through its creativity, new technologies and the use of circular materials – to current environmental, digital and social challenges, such as access to housing.
Likewise, the Biennale Architetura 2025 will emphasize the rich architectural culture of Spainwhich will be exhibited through the works of a quarantine of renowned designers and architects of the country.
Rebuild was the framework of the signature of the manifesto
He Act of the signing of the manifesto has happened within the framework of Rebuild 2025the reference event in Europe in industrialized building, which has brought together 28,739 professionals From April 23 to 25 in IFEMA MADRID, which have discovered – in the hands of 634 exhibiting signatures– The latest industrialized solutions, of energy efficiency, circular and digital for construction. Likewise, the meeting has brought together 707 international expertswhich have shared success cases and projects that are being referred to in the sector.
The fair has been, in the same way, the scenario in which the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has presented the belonging of the industrialization of housingwhich will mean a public investment of 1.3 billion euros in 10 years with the aim of promoting industrialization and responding to the housing emergency in Spain.