FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (December 3, 2024) – The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, in partnership with DesignConnects and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, invites architects, designers, artists and creatives from across the United States and its territories to submit exhibit design proposals for PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, the U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

The Department of State announces the selection of The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, in partnership with Design Connects and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to represent the United States at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025 with their exhibition, “PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity.”

Venice’s famed Giardini della Biennale is set to get a heaping taste of the Natural State beginning next May.

As announced by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, joined in partnership with independent consultancy DesignConnects and Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, have been selected to commission, organize, and curate the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

A delegation from Arkansas will be traveling to Italy to represent the United States in its official pavilion at next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. 

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, in partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and DesignConnects, has been selected by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs to commission, organize and curate the exhibition of the United States Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

We are thrilled to announce exciting news for the AIA New York and New York City architecture community: Susan Chin, FAIA, Hon. ASLA, founder of Design Connects, has been appointed as co-commissioner of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, working with lead co-commissioner Peter MacKeith, Assoc. AIA, dean of the Fay Jones School at University of Arkansas, and co-commissioner Rod Bigelow, executive director of Crystal Bridges Museum.

Consider the porch: A low-tech structure typically made of wood or stone that plays an oversized role in American culture. From August Wilson’s Pittsburgh, Harper Lee’s Alabama, Spike Lee’s New York, to John Steinbeck’s California; artists lean on porches as literary devices for telling complex stories about civic life, and as liminal spaces that divide our public and private worlds pregnant with meaning.