Terra NON Firma I, II
Terra non Firma
Part of The Perimeter of Architecture: Amid the Elements
curated by Sylvia Lavin at the Biennale Architettura 2025
Venice and Bangkok are cities born of water, yet respond differently. Venice builds vertically, solidifying muddy ground into permanence. Bangkok lets water in—its land soft, its edges blurred. Built horizontally to float, not to resist, it drifts where canals cut into the land, and water becomes life, rhythm, and quiet resilience.
Where land and water constantly flirt, defying fixed boundaries, architecture must become a soft form—light, flexible, and amphibian. In Bangkok, such logic has shaped a way of living with uncertainty. As seas rise and ground shifts globally, this quiet adaptability offers not nostalgia, but a possible blueprint for change lies ahead.
