The Lebanese Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, titled 'The Land Remembers,' focuses on the relationship between land and memory, framed within the ongoing ecological crisis in Lebanon. Curated by the Collective for Architecture Lebanon, it presents a fictional Ministry of Land Intelligence, inviting a reevaluation of architecture's role in damaged landscapes. By foregrounding non-human systems and traditional ecological knowledge, the project emphasizes that architects need to re-engage with the land before immediate reconstruction. Local crowdfunding supported the initiative, highlighting commitment toward cultural and environmental representation amid financial and political instability in Lebanon.
Architects need to have more agency when it comes to our engagement with the natural environment and not just think about reconstructing straight away. I think that's also a message that the collective and all the people who worked for this pavilion want to give to the Lebanese architects, that we need to reconsider that relationship with our land before just jumping in and just reconstructing, which is also a very worthy effort, but before architecture, there is land.
Developed in a context of financial instability and political crisis, the project was made possible through local crowdfunding and the support of individuals committed to Lebanon's cultural and environmental presence on the global stage.
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