html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" In a profound moment for Australian and global architecture, the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale features Home, a powerful installation created by The Creative Sphere. The Creative Sphere is Australia’s first all-Indigenous team representing Country at this prestigious event. Home is led by Dr Michael Mossman, Emily McDaniel, and Jack Gillmer (Lilley), as part of a Creative Sphere of First Nations architects and practitioners. The team uses Home not just as a structure, but as a statement: "a call to rethink what it means to belong, to build, and to represent place and identity".Creative Directors (from left to right) Jack, Emily, Michael. Image © Hannah Walker, via Creative AustraliaAt the heart of Home is a rammed earth structure, set in the middle of the Australian Pavilion. Unlike conventional architecture, which often emphasises walls, ceilings and edges, Home is centred around a circular ceremonial space filled with sand, open, inclusive and inviting. Inspired by First Nations spatial philosophies, the design emphasises connection rather than separation, anchoring the concept of Home in the collective memory and nation.Image © ArchitectureauA curving wall of local Venetian earth, rammed, layered and richly textured, surrounds the central void. The wall comprises hand-crafted plaster panels, each with unique patterns and textures that symbolise individuality in the community. Formed by hands and materials, these surfaces tell silent stories of making, remembering and caring.Image © Peter Bennetts, via Indesignlive Image © Peter Bennetts, via Indesignlive Home is a conscious move away from symbolic or romanticised depictions of Australian identity. Rather than filling the pavilion with symbols, the team focused on designing with integrity, responding to Venice as much as Australia, and rooting their work in the shared human experience.This approach also challenges the legacy of colonial architecture, which has historically prioritised aesthetics and definitions of space. Through Home, Indigenous ways of being and knowing are brought to the centre, not as background inspiration, but as guiding principles in the design.Image © Peter Bennetts, via Indesignlive Image © Peter Bennetts, via IndesignliveHome is a place where “cultural generosity and joy” are transformed into radical acts. The installation invites visitors to sit, reflect, and engage in the act of listening. It is something that Western architectural spaces rarely ask of their occupants.Image © Peter Bennetts, via IndesignliveThe structure is also designed to be unstable. After the biennial, it will be dismantled and its materials returned, emphasising the team’s commitment to sustainability and the Indigenous principle of returning to the land.Image © Peter Bennetts, via Indesignlive Image © Peter Bennetts, via IndesignliveThe 19th International Architecture Exhibition will take place from 10 May to 23 November 2025 at the Giardini, the Arsenale and various venues in Venice, Italy.Find out all exhibition news on WAC's Venice Architecture Biennale page. The top photography in the article courtesy of homeascountry.> via homeascountry