Tamara Kosmina was an architect and ethnographer in Ukraine. Her studies on traditional folk architecture captured how societies articulate their values through both constructions and constructed texts. Now, nine years after her passing, a presentation of her work on show at the Venice Biennale captures something new – the dignity of her invaded country. The exhibition “takes something as humble yet essential as a roof – a symbol of shelter – and transforms it into a lens through which we see human resilience during wartime,” an artificial intelligence-generated avatar of Ms. Kosmina says. As Dominique Soguel writes in her story today, “The concept of rebuilding and resistance go hand in hand.”