Soren Pihlmann and Adam Dickinson Making Matter What Too...- Danish Pavillion Venice Biennale 2025

At the core of the Danish Pavillion at the 2025 Venice Biennale will be an ongoing restauration project. With 200 colour illustrations, this book explores the implications of this approach in a dialogue between curator Soren Pihlmann and poet Adam Dickinson. It is not possible to keep tearing down and building anew. Architecture must embrace the challenge of working with what already exists. What stories do these fragments tell about the buildings they might become? The task is to get closer to things, reading the potential of dirt, debris, and other existing materials through diverse forms of inquiry. This unusual book explores the implications of a site-derived practice and ethics. Featuring an extended, lyrical, and multifaceted dialogue between architect Soren Pihlmann and poet Adam Dickinson, it presents unconventional modes of analysis. From microbes to concrete, from metaphors to steel, the book offers a new model of thinking and creating, by making matter what too often does not matter.