This summer, Graduate Thesis hosted a symposium reflecting on the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, a global “thesis” platform where ideas are exhibited, tested, and contested. The discussion examined its curatorial strategies, formats of presentation, and what they reveal about the current ambitions and limits of the discipline. Moderated by Matt Shaw, the conversation featured SCI-Arc faculty Anna Neimark, William Virgil, and Liam Young, each of whom exhibited work in this year’s Biennale. Watch the symposium here.

Each summer, Graduate Thesis at SCI-Arc kicks off by welcoming back the recipients of the Gehry Thesis Prize the previous year, to reflect on their work and contribute to the ongoing discourse with the next cohort. Michael Boldt (M.Arch 1 ’24) and Benjamin Elmer (M.Arch 2 ’24) returned to present their thesis projects and discuss the ideas, methods, and turning points that shaped their work.