The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the shortlisted candidates for Canada?s official representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia.

The team and proposal that will represent Canada at the next Venice Biennale of Architecture will be announced in March 2022. The exhibition will take place at the Canada Pavilion in the Giardini from May to November 2023.
The shortlist includes:

Architects Against Housing Alienation
Not for Sale!: Housing Beyond Capitalism
Canada is suffering from a deep and protracted housing crisis?ranging from a widespread lack of affordability to under-housing, precarious housing, and homelessness. This contemporary reality formed through the extractive logic of speculative real estate, is built on the simultaneous colonial dispossession of Indigenous lands and the modern invention of fee-simple property. In order to advocate for an urgent response to this urban and Indigenous emergency, the Architects Against Housing Alienation (A.A.H.A.) propose that the Canada Pavilion present a genealogy of the crisis alongside a mass of activist demonstrations, conversations, and architectural visions for housing beyond capitalism.
Adrian Blackwell, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
David Fortin, Associate Professor, McEwen School of Architecture, Laurentian University
Matthew Soules, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Britis...