“Material Is Where the Story Begins”: Studio NEiDA on Building Through Craft and Context

Togo Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2025. Image © Matteo LosurdoStudio NEiDA operates at the intersection of architectural practice, research, and curatorial work, with a consistent focus on how buildings emerge from the material and cultural conditions of a place. Rather than treating materiality as a finishing language, the studio frames it as the beginning of an architectural narrative—starting from what is locally available, they look at what craft knowledge exists on the ground,