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Intro/Outro: “Got to Do It,” by Andrew W.K.

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Discussed:

• Amateur Architecture Studio: Wang Shu and Liu Wenyu
• A surreal and uncanny live translation of the press announcement. Sample sentences, per AI:
• “Then tell your ego can contribute to tie your to the total, one lie or toggle lie or drone gorgeous, so it will usually kind of boil in here.”
• “So it a general fish on the Gita woman sound lion eating the Minion, and Villa means young Jewish show that comes in the currency.”
• “Yes, we shall defund the pushes away, and the way this would come dark.”
• Is this the China-max Biennale?
• Marco Polo reference (visited Hangzhou in 1275)
• Shades of Lacaton & Vassal, curators of the 2018 Biennale
• Shades of, and throwing shade at, Mindfulness City from the 2025 edition
• Complexity of taking on the US Pavilion responsibility in this timeline
• The 2025 edition, PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity
• Our somewhat lame attempt at Fantasy Biennale:
• Post-warfare architecture / rebuilding schemes from Ukraine or Gaza?
• One source of ideas: Constructing Hope: Ukraine | Chicago Architecture Center
• Expected returnees:
• Francis Kere
• Lacaton & Vassal
• Probably not Ma Yansong
• Probably not Ai Weiwei
• Question mark over Russia and Israel pavilions, which were unoccupied and closed for renovations, respectively, in 2025
• The 2026 Art Biennale debacle
• Death of curator Koyo Kuoh
• No Golden Lions for nations accused of war crimes
• Potential Greg- and Michèle Champagne-led activation: EU-CAN Alliance:
• Greg: Classic OMA-AMO content, shitposting, that kind of thing. 
• Michele: An alliance around new Bauhaus principles concerning housing.
• Exclusive first right of refusal obtained for Mind Enterprises performance
• Will the menagerie of pavilions make space for protest and dialogue around the more controversial entrants?
• Sorkin’s take on the Rafi Segal-designed Israeli National Library and its cancellation
• Austrian pavilion bridge to the adjoining neighborhood
• Venezia FC
• Closing of current arena on the Venetian lagoon, Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo
• Opening of a new stadium in Mestre
• Enter the Canadians:
• Major investment from Drake
• New management from Toronto FC
• Giuseppe Saputo (Quebecois) owns Bologna FC
• Flashback to episode 119, Paul Goldberger’s interview and comments on the politics of sports and their arenas
• Como FC