“North America’s Largest International Survey of Contemporary Architecture” Coming to Chicago This October!

We’ve been eagerly following news of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, which has already commissioned a series of incredible photos by Iwan Baan and launched a kiosk competition that attracted hundreds of proposals. This week sees the announcement of a robust list of architecture firms and artists who will be participating come October, and it’s a doozy. So far, 63 studios from more than 30 countries across six continents are on board to collectively define the “State of the Art of Architecture,” the theme of the first ever Biennial, a lakeside extravaganza that will be the largest survey of contemporary architecture in North America.

Photo by Iwan Baan courtesy of Chicago Architecture Biennial

The participants, listed in full below, will present at the Biennial exhibition in the Chicago Cultural Center as well as additional sites across the city: Millennium Park, City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, 72 E. Randolph, and the Stony Island Arts Bank, the latest initiative of acclaimed Chicago artist Theaster Gates. The Biennial will also include programming, special events, and symposia and is led by Co-Artistic Directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda, who are supported by an advisory committee comprising David Adjaye, Elizabeth Diller, Jeanne Gang, Frank Gehry, Sylvia Lavin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lord Peter Palumbo, and Stanley Tigerman.

Inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial Participants
*List in formation

Al Borde (Quito, Ecuador)
allzone / Rachaporn Choochuey (Bangkok, Thailand)
Andreas Angelidakis (Athens, Greece)
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation (Madrid, Spain; New York, USA)
ArandaLasch (Tucson, USA; New York, USA)
Assemble (London, UK)
Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokyo, Japan)
Iwan Baan (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Erin Besler / Besler and Sons (Los Angeles, USA)
Tatiana Bilbao S.C. (Mexico City, Mexico)
Bjarke Ingels Group / BIG (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Santiago Borja (Mexico City, Mexico)
Carlos Bunga (Barcelona, Spain)
Bureau Spectacular / Jimenez Lai (Los Angeles, USA)
Csutoras and Liando (Jakarta, Indonesia; London, UK)
Design With Company (Chicago, USA)
El Equipo de Mazzanti / Giancarlo Mazzanti (Bogota, Colombia)
Frida Escobedo (Mexico City, Mexico)
Didier Faustino (Paris, France)
Moon Hoon (Seoul, Korea)
Indie Architecture + Paul Preissner Architects (Denver/Chicago, USA)
John Ronan Architects (Chicago, USA)
Johnston Marklee (Los Angeles, USA)
junya.ishigami+associates (Tokyo, Japan)
Kéré Architecture / Francis Kéré (Berlin, Germany)
Kuehn Malvezzi (Berlin, Germany)
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal and Frederic Druot (Paris, France)
Yasmeen Lari / Heritage Foundation Pakistan (Lahore, Pakistan)
Lateral Office (Toronto, Canada)
LIST / Ido Avissar (Paris, France)
MAIO (Barcelona, Spain)
Marshall Brown Projects (Chicago, USA)
Mass Studies / Minsuk Cho (Seoul, Korea)
MOS / Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample (New York, USA)
New-Territories/M4 / François Roche & Camille Lacadee (Paris, France/Bangkok, Thailand)
NLÉ / Kunlé Adeyemi (Lagos, Nigeria; Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Norman Kelley (Chicago, USA; New York, USA)
OFFICE / Kersten Geers David Van Severen (Brussels, Belgium)
Onishimaki + Hyakuda Architects (Tokyo, Japan)
OPEN Architecture/ Li Hu and Huang Wenjing (Beijing, China)
Lluís Ortega / Sio2arch (Chicago, USA; Barcelona, Spain)
otherothers / David Neustein and Grace Mortlock (Sydney, Australia)
Pedro&Juana (Mexico City, Mexico)
Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Concepcion, Chile)
Plan:b Arquitectos / Felipe Mesa & Federico Mesa (Medellín, Colombia)
PORT (Chicago, USA)
PRODUCTORA (Mexico City, Mexico)
RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances] (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Bryony Roberts (Los Angeles, USA; Oslo, Norway)
RUA Arquitetos (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Rural Urban Framework (Hong Kong)
SO-IL (New York, USA)
Sou Fujimoto Architects (Tokyo, Japan)
Studio Albori (Milan, Italy)
Studio [D] Tale (Harare, Zimbabwe; Capetown, South Africa; London, UK)
Studio Gang / Jeanne Gang (Chicago, USA)
TOMA (Santiago, Chile)
UrbanLab / Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen (Chicago, USA)
VTN / Vo Trong Nghia Architects (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
WAI Architecture Think Tank (Beijing, China)
Weathers / Sean Lally (Chicago, USA)
Amanda Williams (Chicago, USA)
WORKac+ Ant Farm / Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier (New York, USA)