Pressure Cooker Recipes

Cooking and architecture have a lot in common. Both start with a set of ingredients that are combined to create a whole - one that is often greater than the sum of its parts. Conceived as a publication for this year’s National Pavilion UAE at La Biennale di Venezia 2025, this architectural cookbook features recipes that range from the technical to the fictional to the historic.

It showcases a multitude of responses to a curated selection of key ingredients, providing creative, flavourful, and accessible ways to reflect on food production in a harsh desert climate such as the UAE’s.

An architectural cookbook