Head of the Sonora AA Visiting School Nasios Varnavas will be curating and designing the Cyprus Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, May to November 2021.

Alongside fellow designer and co-founder Era Savvides, their studio Urban Radicals is collaborating with curators Evagoras Vanezis and Marina Christodoulidou. Anachoresis: Upon Inhabiting Distances, will take the form of a large table exploring the social dimensions, narratives and perceptions that occur when distancing becomes a paradigm for the development of new socialites & architectures for living together.

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The Cyprus Pavilion has recently announced an open call for young emerging architects & collectives under 45, which must include one or more Cypriot architects.

Image credits: Cyprus Handicraft Centre Archives - A group of women working together on the math/map and joining of a traditional 'Lefkara' tablecloth.