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Hailing from over 20 countries, over 80 contributors highlight the role architecture plays in the lives of communities in Chicago and around the world. CHICAGO (May 23, 2019) – The Chicago Architecture Biennial announced today the contributors to the 2019 edition. Titled …and other such stories, the exhibition will form a uniquely discursive and interactive exploration of the experience of architecture and the built environment worldwide.

Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces Early Highlight Contributors Comprising 50 Contributors from 19 Countries, Including Architects, Artists, Collectives, and Researchers New and commissioned projects from Forensic Architecture and Invisible Institute, Wolff Architects, MASS Design Group and Theaster Gates, among others to highlight issues ranging from public housing to social justice to the appropriation and preservation of the natural environment   CHICAGO (March 14.

CHICAGO (February 13, 2019) - National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $27 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $50,000 to the Chicago Architectural Biennial, the largest architecture and design exhibition in North America.

Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces Title and Curatorial Focus of 2019 Edition …and other such stories embraces a broad spectrum of perspectives on architecture to imagine space and the built environment anew Curatorial team draws on the spatial, historical, and socio-economic conditions of Chicago to consider questions of land, memory, rights, and civic participation September 19, 2019 - January 5, 2020 CHICAGO (February 6.

Key Initiative Launches Third BP Student Design Competition with the Biennial and Chicago Public Library and Public Schools CHICAGO (November 5, 2018) – The Chicago Architecture Biennial announced today that BP, its Founding Sponsor, has renewed its support, with a $1 million commitment to the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Artistic Director Yesomi Umolu builds out curatorial team with expertise in research architecture and discursive practices CHICAGO (May 15, 2018) – The Chicago Architecture Biennial announced today that curator and educator Sepake Angiama, and architect and urbanist Paulo Tavares will join the curatorial team of 2019 Artistic Director Yesomi Umolu.

Yesomi Umolu at the Chicago Cultural Center. Photo by Andrew Bruah, courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces the Appointment of Yesomi Umolu as the Artistic Director of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial CHICAGO (March 6, 2018) – The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) and Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today that Chicago-based curator and writer Yesomi Umolu will serve as the Artistic Director of the Biennial’s 2019 edition.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today that 554,866 residents and visitors from the U.S. and around the world took part in the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, which closed Sunday, January 7. A platform for groundbreaking architecture and design projects, the 2017 edition of this global event featured 140 architects and designers, from 20 countries, selected by the Artistic Directors Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of the LA-based firm Johnston Marklee.

  Mayor Rahm Emanuel honors winners and participants at showcase reception held at the Chicago Cultural Center The Chicago Architecture Biennial, Founding Sponsor BP and Signature Education Partner Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF), announced yesterday the winners of the BP Student Design Competition at a showcase reception hosted at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Biennial host site.

The Chicago Architecture Biennial in partnership with Founding Sponsor BP and Signature Education Partner Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) are pleased to announce the return of the BP Student Design Competition this fall.

Today the Chicago Architecture Biennial is excited to announce a group of special projects by designers, artists, and performers presented in partnership with five extraordinary venues in and around Chicago. These projects are part of Artistic Directors Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee's vision for Make New History, which asks innovative designers and artists to reinterpret a series of historic spaces from contemporary perspectives.

The Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) are pleased to announce that CAF has been named the Signature Education Partner of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Building upon the success of the education programs offered in the inaugural 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, CAF is developing an ambitious new education initiative and expanding the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s reach to communities throughout the city.

The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) announces more than 100 Program Partner organizations that will present collateral events and exhibitions in Chicago, Illinois. Partner programming will coincide with the preview on September 14–15, 2017, and continue for the duration of the Biennial, from the opening weekend on September 16–17 through January 7, 2018.

Today the Chicago Architecture Biennial announced an expansion into Chicago's neighborhoods by adding six museums and institutions that will serve as Community Anchor sites for 2017. They include The Beverly Arts Center, DePaul Art Museum, DuSable Museum of African American History, Hyde Park Art Center, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture.

At an intimate breakfast at The Modern restaurant in New York City Monday morning, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel joined curators, artists and architects to announce the participants of the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, an exhibition of more than 100 international architecture firms and artists scheduled for September 16 this year through January 7, 2018.

The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) announced today the list of international architecture firms and artists who will participate in its second edition, entitled “Make New History,” to take place September 16, 2017–January 7, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois. Over 100 firms and artists representing countries around the world were selected by the 2017 Biennial Artistic Directors, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, of the Los Angeles–based firm Johnston Marklee.

In 2015 the city of Chicago hosted the very first architecture biennial to take place in North America, a sprawling survey of all that was happening in the profession that attracted 530,000 visitors. Suddenly the second edition is right around the corner. Artistic directors and L.A.

Directors Sharon Johnston, FAIA, and Mark Lee of Los Angeles–based Johnston Marklee have selected more than 100 firms and artists to participate in the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. The second iteration of the Biennial—"Make New History"— will focus on how architects "align their work with versions of history," according to a statement.

The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) and Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today new leadership, funding, and dates for the second edition of the Biennial, to take place September 16–December 31, 2017. Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of the Los Angeles–based firm Johnston Marklee, which participated in the inaugural Biennial, have been named Artistic Directors for the 2017 edition.

Como una imagen de sí mismos, bajo el argumento de “somos lo que hacemos”, la firma de arquitectura Al Borde convirtió una casa en construcción en un manifiesto vivo para la edición inaugural de la Bienal de Arquitectura de Chicago.

The first-ever Chicago Architecture Biennial ended last month, and I must say I was sad to see it go. By any stretch, the Biennial was a rocking success. Thousands of people came, hundreds of architects participated, millions of conversations, discussions, presentations, debates… This is the great success of the thing. People engaged. And in that exchange, ideas can be born, new things come afoot.

The elevated was clacking and roaring, and a lake wind, misty and brisk, was pushing through the limestone corridors of the Loop. The sky was knotted with clouds. I’d come to the city for the opening of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, where more than a hundred architects and artists, from some thirty countries, had been invited to present work in a variety of mediums at sites around the city.

Earlier this month, Chicago took in its last glimpses of the city’s first architecture biennial. An outgrowth of the City’s Cultural Plan and drawing more than half a million visitors over three months, the biennial enabled a vast network of spaces where different approaches and roles of architecture and design in communities were brought to multiple audiences.

At 2015’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, local teens gained new design insight, met with working architects, and fell in love with the Chicago Cultural Center itself. And CAF was there every step of the way. As early January, 2016, brought a close to the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, architectural critics—including Blair Kamin, Lynn Becker, Edward Keegan—began to sum up the broader influence of the 3-month exhibition, which drew more than 500,000 visitors.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today that Ultramoderne, a collaboration between architects Yasmin Vobis and Aaron Forrest and structural engineer Brett Schneider, won the BP Prize in the Lakefront Kiosk Competition.