The Canadian exhibit at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy, the most prestigious architecture showcase in the world, opened like many others have just outside Canada’s teepee-inspired wood and glass pavilion on the Venetian Lagoon: speeches, thank yous, an Indigenous land acknowledgement and applause.
Then the six architects behind the Not for Sale! show took the stage on Friday, at the six-month-long event’s inauguration, and made the real purpose of the exhibit loud and clear.
“We demand land back!” shouted Adrian Blackwell, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture in Waterloo, Ont., launching a call and response from the crowd for the
