Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA), Poster in Toronto (poster by Chris Lee, rendering by William Hansen), 2022.
Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) will represent Canada at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia, from May 20 to November 26, 2023.

AAHA is a curatorial collective, newly formed for the Venice Biennale of Architecture. It has a mission to instigate an architectural movement and create socially, ecologically, and creatively empowering housing for all. 

The collective was selected from among four finalists in a national jury competition. The Canada Council for the Arts, as Commissioner, oversees Canada?s official participation and will contribute $500,000 towards AAHA?s exhibition. 
With this distinction, Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) will launch Not for Sale! an architectural activist campaign for non-alienated housing

AAHA will transform the Canada Pavilion in the Giardini? into a campaign headquarters for equitable housing that rejects this concept of property and the financialized form of architecture that it implies.
Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA), Headquarters (rendering by William Hansen), 2022.
To address these issues, they will work with interdisciplinary and geographically-dispersed teams of activist organizations, advocates for non-alienated housing, and architects. They will collaborate to develop demands and create architectural projects to address housing a...