2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, image © Iwan Baan

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The first Chicago Architecture Biennial brings the world's prominent architects and artist to the stage. 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial will start 3 October 2015 and will be running until 3 January 2016 with some major events, exhibitions, educational facilities, tours, workshiops,competitions, public performances and lectures/panels. The biennial has invited more than 100 emerging and established architects from around the world to showcase sketches, digital renderings, and scale models as well as more unconventional displays. The artistic directors of the Chicago Biennial are Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda."I am interested in the exhibition as a test site," Herda says and "Architecture, whether good or bad, is where you live, where you go to school, where you work and where you play," coartistic director Sarah Herda added for the reports.

Andreas Angelidakis, Greece

The participants of the Biennial comprises many prominent architects and new small-scaled design studios including BIG, 3D Design Studio, David Adjaye, Andreas Angelidakis, Aranda/Lasch, Assemble, Atelier BOW-WOW, Counterspace, DAAR, David Brown, Design with Company, Fala Atelier, Iwan Baan, JAHN, Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape, Independent Architecture + Paul Preissner Architects and many more...

MOMA PS1, Andres Jaque / Office For Political Innovation

The Chicago Cultural Center The main hub of the Biennial will be the Chicago Cultural Center, a five-story Beaux-Arts building located in the heart of downtown Chicago. The other venues are Millennium Park, Stony Island Arts Bank, The Graham Foundation- the Biennial will extend to Expo 72, located across the street from the Chicago Cultural Center and Historic Water Tower Gallery. 

Aranda\Lasch is a New York and Tucson-based design studio dedicated to experimental research and innovative building.

The Chicago Architecture Biennial will open to the public on October 3, 2015 and will continue through January 3, 2016. Hours and visiting directions will be posted here as the opening dates approach. The Chicago Architecture Biennial’s public programs explore issues at the heart of urban experience and architectural practice. These events invite dialogue about how we construct (and conceive) the world we live in.

This is the all(zone) work, all(zone) is a group of architecture and design professionals based in Bangkok, led by Rachaporn Choochuey and Sorawit Klaimak. They are fascinated by their ever-changing metropolis, and the forms it gives to everyday life. Allzone observes contemporary vernacular design solutions carefully, and tries to learn from them. 

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group 

As the Chicago Architecture Biennial continues to develop its program of exhibitions and events, there will be multiple opportunities for volunteering and employment. If a position is currently open, it will be listed here. There are a variety of volunteer opportunities available between September 2015 and January 2016. Volunteers will assist in a variety of projects and events, contingent on their skills and interests. These positions are unpaid. For more information and to apply, visit this page. Please note that the volunteer application deadline is September 23.

This is the work of Design With Company (Dw/Co), is the Chicago-based architectural collaborative of Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer. Dw/Co seeks to transform the world through textual and visual narratives, speculative urban scenarios, installations, and small-scale interactive constructions.

another work of Design With Company (Dw/Co)

Chicago Architecture Biennial, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation charged with executing the inaugural 2015 Biennial and subsequent biennials. Dedicated to creating an international forum on architecture and urbanism through the production of exhibitions and public programs, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Inc., seeks to convene the world’s leading practitioners, theorists, and commentators in the field of architecture and urbanism to explore, debate, and demonstrate the significance of architecture to contemporary society.

This is the JAHN's work, is an international firm that, with over 75 years of experience, has achieved critical recognition and won numerous awards. JAHN’s ability to integrate design creativity and corporate professionalism makes it a leader in Global Design Innovation. The current leadership of Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido.

Celebrate the opening of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial! These performances, lectures, tours, and exhibition openings kick off this exhilarating global event.

Performance, October 2, 2015 at Federal Plaza 219, S Dearborn St Chicago.

The project ”We Know How to Order” magnifies systems of ordering the body in contemporary Chicago. This site-specific performance brings together the Federal Center by Mies van der Rohe and the South Shore Drill Team, which performs high-energy drill routines infused with street choreography. Conceived by Bryony Roberts, and choreographed by Asher Waldron of the South Shore Drill Team, this project responds to a space of federal government and the architecture of Mies van der Rohe through dynamic physical movement.

Exhibition, until January 3, 2016 at Museum of Contemporary Art.

Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha is the fifth artist in the MCA’s annual summer plaza project series. Da Cunha is known for finding creative ways of re-purposing found objects—straw hats, plastic soda bottles, umbrellas—and the MCA Plaza is activated by three of his interactive pieces, one measuring thirty-feet-tall, made from locally-produced concrete sewer pipes, and a concrete mixer. The materials have been re-purposed from their typical locations—under Chicago’s city streets or on the back of a cement truck—and made accessible for visitors to step inside or peer into and see complex shadows revealed as sunlight filters down into them.

Exhibition, until January 3, 2016- Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye at The Art Institute of Chicago

With over 50 built projects across the world, David Adjaye is rapidly emerging as a major international figure in architecture and design. Rather than advancing a signature architectural style, Adjaye’s structures address local concerns and conditions through both a historical understanding of context and a global understanding of modernism. The first comprehensive museum survey devoted to Adjaye, this exhibition offers an in-depth overview of the architect’s distinct approach and visual language with a dynamic installation design conceived by Adjaye Associates.

Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright's Sc Johnson Campus, October 3,2015-January 3,2016 at Chicago Cultural Center.

Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday throughout the Biennial, free shuttles transport visitors to Racine, Wisconsin, for the day to explore the SC Johnson corporate headquarters. The tour features the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Administration Building (opened in 1939) and Research Tower (opened in 1950), as well as the newly refurbished 1940s office of SC Johnson’s former president H. F. Johnson Jr. (available on weekends only) and Fortaleza Hall, designed by Foster + Partners. Weekend tours are extended to also include Wingspread, the iconic, Prairie-style home Wright designed for H. F. Johnson Jr. in the late 1930s. Encompassing 14,000 square feet, Wingspread is the last and largest of Wright’s Prairie-style houses. The tour highlights remarkable features such as the home’s disappearing dining table, its teepee-inspired clerestory ceiling in the great room, and the cantilevered “Romeo and Juliet” balcony bedroom. To book a free tour, including a free shuttle to and from the Cultural Center, visit www.scjohnson.com/visit.

Performance, Atom-R Within House, October 1, 2015 at Ohio Street Beach

Atom-R performs within Sarah FitzSimons’s House which is physically open to the elements, minimally defining its exterior and interior. The performative collective responds to the house by exploring how bodies are simutaneously liberated and contained within space.

Exhibition, Richard Meier: Process and Vision, starts October 4,2015- continue until January 30,2016 at 2233 S. Throop St.

The objective of this exhibition is to illustrate the development of the work of Richard Meier and in doing so, to examine the philosophy, the process and the vision of a celebrated architect and artist. Richard Meier’s international body of work is acclaimed for its timeless, classical, iconic design from the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art to the Getty Center in Los Angeles to Rome’s Jubilee Church. By showcasing a variety of architectural drawings and sketches, original photographs and study models, this exhibition will explore the diversity of the challenges inherent within each project: social, environmental, aesthetic, technological and economic. Several of the firm’s newest projects will be featured including the Leblon Offices, Rio De Janeiro; Reforma Towers, Mexico City, Mexico and Rothschild Tower, Tel Aviv, Israel. Several of Meier’s original collages will also be featured within this exhibition, inviting audience members to explore the relationship between the two disciplines.

BP Student Design Competition 

Chicago Public School students aged 13 or older are eligible to enter the BP Design Competition. The BP Design Competition challenges participants to think outside the box and imagine a pocket park that will improve access to public open space for a Chicago area neighborhood. Awards will be given to the top 10 designs and first prize includes $500 and dinner and an overnight stay in a hotel downtown for the winner’s family. The competition jury includes representatives from the Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Schools, The Chicago Architecture Biennial and BP. Students can compete individually or in teams. Visit architecture.org/bpcompetition for more information or to register to enter.

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