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Armenian Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2025
Architectural Installation
2025

At the 19th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2025, the Republic of Armenia presents "Microarchitecture Through AI: Making New Memories with Ancient Monuments." The pavilion brings attention to the challenges facing cultural heritage today, particularly loss through climate change, conflict, and neglect, while exploring how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence may offer new methods for preservation and reinterpretation.

The Tumo Center for Creative Technologies scanned hundreds of significant and at-risk structures (due to climate change and conflict), which our broader team of technologists, designers, and researchers transformed into the foundation for a generative AI model. One capable of simulating and fabricating new architectural forms that reimagine memory, heritage, and preservation.

Curated by Marianna Karapetyan, a collaboration between Electric Architects, TUMO, Calfa, Ari Melenciano, and MoNumEd.

Contributed conceptual direction and creative framing.

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