Making a Venice pavilion happen. But the spritzes and the sunshine belie the financial and logistical feat it takes for architecture curators and co-commissioners to get to Venice in the first place.

‘In the West, the pavilion is often seen as a folly, something otherworldly and almost utopian.’ His (self-imposed) task, realised through the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion commission, was to mix these two ...