AA alumni Kastler Skjeseth Architects to create Nordic Pavilion exhibition at Venice Architecture Biennale 2027

AA alum and Co-Head of Conservation and Reuse Amandine Kastler, and AA alum Erlend Skjeseth will create the Nordic Pavilion exhibition for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2027. Their practice, Kastler Skjeseth, has been commissioned by the National Museum of Norway to develop an installation that responds to next year’s focus on craftsmanship, sustainability and local tradition. Kastler Skjeseth will draw on their own projects, which includes the renovation of buildings in rural Norway, to explore how Norwegian building techniques and craft intersects with contemporary construction methods. In a press release to announce the news, Amandine and Erlend said,

‘We believe future architecture will increasingly combine fragments of the past with technologies of tomorrow, creating ambiguous hybrids that challenge established distinctions …  In unsettled times, people often return to what feels familiar, and we are seeing renewed interest in traditional and local forms of building’.

Norway, Sweden and Finland jointly own the Nordic Pavilion and alternate responsibility for leading each edition of the biennale. Next year, the National Museum of Norway will oversee the pavilion for the 20th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale which will be curated by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Amateur Architecture Studio.

Read the full press release here

Image credit: Ian Wesenberg / The National Museum