Hidden Patterns: The Visual Journey of Networks

Albert-László Barabási, one of the participants in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 with the project Constructing La Biennale, will open the 2025–2026 academic year of ARCHiVe Online Academy with the lecture Hidden Patterns: The Visual Journey of Networks.

The lecture explores the relationship between complexity and connectivity — a fundamental principle shared by biological, technological and social systems. From the World Wide Web to neural circuits, from cellular structures to cultural networks, the world we inhabit is shaped by deep, interconnected relationships.
Barabási will retrace twenty-five years of work at the BarabásiLab, dedicated to developing a visual language of networks. Participants will be taken on a journey from the interactome to the connectome, from chaotic “hairballs” to 3D-printed network structures, from data visualisation to dataism, and from academic research to exhibition practice.

The lecture will conclude with an insight into the most recent project developed for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025: a large-scale installation that maps, through the lens of network science, fifty years of architectural history.

The lecture will be held in English.
Free admission upon registration.