Our Director & Managing Principal, Mark Young, is currently in Venice — taking it all in and representing Hunt Architects on the ground. Hunt Architects supporting HOME aligns with our long-standing commitment to designing with purpose — embedding stories, sustainability, and cultural understanding into the built environment. We’re grateful to play a small part in supporting a project that not only showcases First Nations leadership in design, but shifts the global architecture conversation.
13 May 2025
Proudly Supporting Australia’s Exhibition at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture
HOME: Australia’s Pavilion Opens at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture
Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects, HOME is a powerful, First Nations-led response to this year’s 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. The exhibition explores how architecture can meaningfully reflect and respect culture, memory, and place – asking visitors to consider what “home” means across cultures, time, and landscape.
Hunt Architects is proud to be a donor to HOME – Australia’s exhibition at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia which officially opened this month in the Venice Giardini.
Led by a collective of Indigenous architects and practitioners — including Dr Michael Mossman, Emily McDaniel, and Jack Gillmer (Lilley) — the exhibition offers a multisensory, participatory experience that connects visitors to Country through storytelling, sound, memory, and materiality.
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At the heart of the pavilion is the Country Sphere, a space designed for deep sensory engagement with natural elements, where visitors are invited to leave their mark on the Living Canvas — sharing their stories of home through a fusion of traditional knowledge and modern technologies such as augmented reality. The result is a living, evolving expression of collective identity and belonging. The design approach to HOME is not only deeply respectful of Indigenous knowledge systems, but also environmentally conscious. This ethical stance challenges conventional exhibition practices and promotes a more sustainable model for global cultural events.
Read more about the design approach of HOME via the ArchitectureAU article.
