Making Matter What Too Often Does Not Matter

Making Matter What Too Often Does Not Matter

This unusual book, published in connection with the exhibition in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, explores the implications of a site-derived architectural practice and ethics. Featuring an extended, lyrical, and multifaceted dialogue between architect Søren Pihlmann and poet Adam Dickinson, it presents unconventional modes of analysis. From microbes to concrete, from metaphors to steel, the book offers a new model of thinking and creating, by making matter what too often does not matter. 

About the authors

Søren Pihlmann is the founder of pihlmann architects – a practice that challenges conventional architectural perspectives by exploring new materials and re-evaluating existing ones. In recent years, pihlmann architects has made a notable impact on Danish architecture through transformation projects that have shaped contemporary discourse.

Adam Dickinson is a Canadian writer and professor of poetry at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Working at the intersection of science and literature, his ongoing poetic practice integrates expanded modes of writing with laboratory-based scientific experiments to investigate the complicated interplay between bodies and environments.