The State Department announced that the University of Miami School of Architecture will represent the U.S. Pavilion at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Architect Germane Barnes will serve as lead curator, working with architectural historian Vyta Pivo on Earth Craft, an exhibition focused on the materials, building traditions and labor behind American architecture.
The project will examine brick, rammed earth, adobe and concrete masonry, tracing each material from the ground to the built environment. Barnes is an associate professor and director of the Master of Architecture Graduate Program at the university, and he founded Studio Barnes.
