The list of participants for the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice have been announced by Paolo Baratta, President of La Biennale di Venezia, and Hashim Sarkis, curator of the Biennale. 

In total, the event will bring together 114 designers and architecture firms whose work will be laid out across a collection of themed blocks focusing on topics that grow from those encompassing the technological and political realities of the human body to ones that include the United Nations and global ecological regions and systems.  

Describing the goal of the biennale, Sarkis explains in a statement, "We need a new spatial contract. In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, we call on architects to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together." 

Chicago architects Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner were selected in 2019 as the curators for the United States Pavilion at the Biennale. The pair's exhibition, American Framing, is set to explore "the conditions and consequences of American wood-framed construction," according to a press release.

The full list of participants for the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice follows:

Arsenale

"Among Diverse Beings"

• Allan Wexler Studio (New York, USA) Allan Wexler
• Ani Liu (New York, USA)
• Azra Aksamija (Cambridge, USA)
• FABER FUTURES (London, UK) Natsai Audrey Chieza
• Lucy McRae (Los Angeles, USA)
• MAEID [Büro für Architektur und transmediale Kunst] (Vienna, Austria) Daniela Mitterberger, Tiziano Derme
• Modem (Oakland, USA) Nicholas de Monchaux, Kathryn Moll
• Parsons & Charlesworth (Chicago, USA) Tim Parsons, Jessica Charlesworth
• Peju Alatise (Lagos, Nigeria)
• Philip Beesley Architect and Living Architecture Systems Group (Toronto, Canada) Philip Beesley
• Refik Anadol Studio (Los Angeles, USA) Refik Anadol
• Studio Libertiny (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Tomas Libertiny
• Studio Ossidiana (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Milan, Italy) Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini
• The Living (New York, USA) David Benjamin

"As New Households"

• Achim Menges / ICD University of Stuttgart and Jan Knippers / ITKE University of Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany) Achim Menges, Jan Knippers
• Aires Mateus (Lisbon, Portugal) Francisco Aires Mateus, Manuel Aires Mateus
• AL_A (London, UK) Amanda Levete, Ho-Yin Ng, Alice Dietsch, Maximiliano Arrocet
• Alison Brooks Architects (London, UK) Alison Brooks
• Atelier RITA (Paris, France) Valentine Guichardaz-Versini
• BAAG Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Griselda Balian, Gastón Noriega, Gabriel Monteleone
• ecoLogicStudio (London, UK) Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto
• Farshid Moussavi Architecture (London, UK) Farshid Moussavi
• Fernanda Canales (Mexico City, Mexico)
• gad · line+ studio (Hangzhou, China) Fanhao Meng
• Gramazio Kohler Architects / NCCR DFAB (Zürich, Switzerland) Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler
• K63.STUDIO (Nairobi, Kenya, Vancouver, Canada) Osborne Macharia
• leonmarcial arquitectos (Lima, Peru) Alexia Leon, Lucho Marcial
• Leopold Banchini Architects (Geneva, Switzerland) Leopold Banchini
• LIN Architects Urbanists (Berlin, Germany, Paris, France) Finn Geipel
• Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture (Paris, France) Lina Ghotmeh
• Miralles Tagliabue EMBT (Barcelona, Spain) Benedetta Tagliabue, Elena Nedelcu, Joan Callís
• nicolas laisné architectes (Montreuil, France) Nicolas Laisné
• OPAFORM architects (Bergen, Norway) Marina Bauer, Espen Folgerø
• Open Systems Lab (London, UK) Alastair Parvin)
• ROJO / FERNÁNDEZ-SHAW, arquitectos (Madrid, Spain) Begoña Fernadez-Shaw, Luis Rojo
• Sahel Alhiyari Architects (Amman, Jordan) Sahel Alhiyari
• SsD (Seoul, Korea, New York, USA) Jinhee Park
• THE OPEN WORKSHOP (San Francisco, USA, Toronto, Canada) Neeraj Bhatia, Antje Steinmuller

"As Emerging Communities"

• antonas office (Athens, Greece, Berlin, Germany) Aristide Antonas
• Arquitectura Expandida (Bogotá, Colombia) Ana López Ortego, Harold Guyaux, Felipe González González, Viviana Parada Camargo
• atelier masōmī (Niamey, Niger) Mariam Kamara
• Bouroullec Brothers (Paris, France) Erwan Bouroullec, Ronan Bouroullec
• Cohabitation Strategies (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Lucia Babina, Emiliano Gandolfi, Gabriela Rendon, Miguel Robles Duran
• doxiadis+ (Athens, Greece) Thomas Doxiadis
• EFFEKT (Copenhagen, Denmark) Sinus Lynge, Tue Foged
• ELEMENTAL (Santiago de Chile, Chile) Alejandro Aravena, Victor Oddó, Gonzalo Arteaga, Diego Torres, Juan Cerda
• Enlace Arquitectura (Caracas, Venezuela) Elisa Silva
• Fieldoffice Architects (Yilan, Taiwan) Huang Sheng-Yuan
• Han Tumertekin (Istanbul, Turkey)
• Igneous Tectonics (Cambridge, USA) Cristina Parreño, Sergio Araya
• Lacol (Barcelona, Spain) Ariadna Artigas, Mirko Gegundez, Lali Daví, Pol Massoni, Anna Clemente, Cristina Gamboa, Núria Vila, Jordi Miró, Ernest Garriga, Eliseu Arrufat, Laura Lluch, Lluc Hernandez, Arnau Andrés, Carles Baiges
• Leong Leong (New York, USA) Dominic Leong, Christopher Leong
• Manuel Herz Architects and Iwan Baan (Basel, Switzerland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Manuel Herz, Iwan Baan
• NADAAA (Boston, USA) Nader Tehrani, Arthur Chang
• OMA (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Reinier de Graaf
• PRÁCTICA (Madrid, Spain) Jaime Daroca Guerrero, José Mayoral Moratilla, José Ramón Sierra Gómez de León
• raumlaborberlin (Berlin, Germany) Andrea Hofmann, Axel Timm, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Christof Mayer, Florian Stirnemann, Francesco Apuzzo, Frauke Gerstenberg, Jan Liesegang, Markus Bader
• S.E.L (Cambridge, USA, Paris, France) Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
• Sean Lally (Lausanne, Switzerland, Chicago, USA)
• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (New York, USA) Colin Koop
• Storia Na Lugar (Praia, Cabo Verde) Patti Anahory, Cesar Schofield Cardoso
• studio L A (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Lorien Beijaert, Arna Mačkić
• Superflux (London, UK) Anab Jain, Jon Ardern
• TUMO Center for Creative Technologies (Yerevan, Armenia) Marie Lou Papazian, Pegor Papazian
• UNStudio (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos
• WOJR (Cambridge, USA) William O’Brien Jr.

Central Pavilion / Giardini

"Across Borders" 

• AAU ANASTAS (Bethlehem, Palestine) Elias Anastas, Yousef Anastas
• ACASA GRINGO CARDIA DESIGN (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Gringo Cardia with AIKAX, Takumã Kuikuro (Amazonas, MG, Brazil) and People’s Palace Projects, Paul Heritage (London, UK)
• ASSET Production Studio (Berlin, Germany) Anna-Sophie Springer with Ibu Kota Kolektif (Indonesia), Yayasan Peta Bencana (Indonesia), Nashin Mahtani (Indonesia) and Armin Linke (Italy, Germany)
• Atelier Marko Brajovic (São Paulo, Brazil) Marko Brajovic, Bruno Bezerra
• BASE studio (Santiago, Chile) Barbara Barreda, Felipe Sepulveda
• Dan Majka & Gary Setzer (Madison and Tucson, USA) Dan Majka, Gary Setzer
• Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (Beit Sahour, Palestine) Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal
• Dogma (Brussels, Belgium) Martino Tattara, Pier Vittorio Aureli
• Forensic Oceanography (London, UK) Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani
• Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST) (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, New York, USA)Malkit Shoshan
• GFA (Sydney, Australia) Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Urtzi Grau
• Giuditta Vendrame(Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
• Heatherwick Studio (London, UK) Thomas Heatherwick
• La Minga (Quito, Ecuador)Pablo Escudero
• Lateral Office and Arctic Design Group (Toronto, Canada, Charlottesville, USA) Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Leena Cho, Matthew Jull
• Matilde Cassani, Ignacio G. Galan, Ivan L. Munuera, Joel Sanders (Milan, Italy, New York, USA, Princeton, USA, New Haven, USA)
• Michael Maltzan Architecture (Los Angeles, USA) Michael Maltzan
• MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste (Paris, France) Michel Desvigne
• Monsoon Assemblages and Office of Experiments (London, UK) Lindsay Bremner, Neal White
• Olalekan Jeyifous (Brooklyn, USA) and Mpho Matsipa (Johannesburg, South Africa and New York, USA)
• Paula Nascimento (Luanda, Angola)
• Pinar Yoldas (San Diego, USA)
• Rural Urban Framework (Hong Kong, China) Joshua Bolchover, John Lin
• Smout Allen ( London, UK) Laura Allen, Mark Smout, Geoff Manaugh
• Somatic Collaborative (New York, USA) Anthony Acciavatti, Felipe Correa, Devin Dobrowolski
• Studio Paola Viganò (Milan, Italy) Paola Viganò
• Studio Tomás Saraceno (Berlin, Germany) Tomás Saraceno
• UNLESS (Hamburg, Germany) Giulia Foscari Widmann Rezzonico
• Vogt Landscape Architects (Zürich, Switzerland)Günther Vogt

Giardini

"As One Planet" 

• Bethany Rigby (London, UK)
• Cave_bureau (Nairobi, Kenya) Karanja Kabage, Stella Mutegi
• Christina Agapakis, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Sissel Tolaas (Boston, USA; London, UK; Berlin, Germany)
• DESIGN EARTH (Cambridge and Ann Arbor, USA) Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy
• Kei Kaihoh Architects (Tokyo, Japan) Kei Kaihoh
• Mabe Bethônico (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Geneva, Switzerland)
• OOZE and Marjetica Potrč (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Lubjiana, Slovenia) Eva Pfannes, Sylvain Hartenberg, Marjetica Potrč
• Plan B Architecture & Urbanism (New Haven, USA) Joyce Hsiang, Bimal Mendis
• Self-Assembly Lab (Cambridge, USA)Skylar Tibbits, Jared Laucks, Schendy Kernizan
• spbr arquitetos (Sao Paolo, Brazil) Angelo Bucci
• TVK (Paris, France) Pierre Alain Trévelo, Antoine Viger-Kohler
• Urban Theory Lab (UTL) Harvard GSD / Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich (Cambridge, USA, Zürich, Switzerland) Neil Brenner, Christian Schmid
• Weitzman School of Design (Philadelphia, USA) Richard Weller

Fort Marghera

"How Will We Play Together?"

• AWILDC-AWP london (London, UK, New York, USA) Alessandra Cianchetta
• HAJEK & SKULL + MOLOARCHITEKTI (Prague, Czech Republic) Matej Hajek, Tereza Kucerova
• HHF Architects (Basel, Switzerland) Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann, Simon Frommenwiler
• Ifat Finkelman & Deborah Pinto Fdeda (Tel Aviv, Israel)
• Sean Ahlquist – University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) Sean Ahlquist
• Wissam Chaaya (Beirut, Lebanon)

Despite the ongoing concerns regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus, The Biennale is set to debut to select audiences on May 21, 2020, with the official public opening set for May 23, as previously scheduled.