{"id":168985,"date":"2025-09-20T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168985\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:08:11","slug":"chicago-architecture-biennial-starts-today-8-highlights-not-to-miss-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168985\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Architecture Biennial starts today: 8 highlights not to miss | News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The\u00a0Chicago Architecture Biennial<\/a>\u00a0officially opens today for its 2025 edition. The latest theme, “Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change,” features a program curated by UIC School of Architecture<\/a>\u00a0director\u00a0Florencia Rodriguez<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Events and exhibitions align with CAB 6\u2019s focus on changes within architecture and other salient issues. Rodriguez has previously said<\/a> that the event will be “an opportunity to gather global experiences, ideas, and projects that create an archive of contemporary architecture to inform decision making, education, debate, and collective thinking about the world we design.”<\/p>\n

A full slate of activities is taking place across Chicago from now until mid-February, including multiple exhibitions, tours, panel discussions, film screenings, product demonstrations, workshops, and celebrations. Sites activated on the opening day include the\u00a0Chicago Cultural Center,\u00a0Graham Foundation,\u00a0Stony Island Arts Bank, a site-specific installation on the grounds of the\u00a0Griffin Museum of Science and Industry,\u00a0and special performances throughout the day.\u00a0Over 100 architects, designers, and creative practitioners will participate in the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change” closes on February 28th. Be sure to follow our\u00a02025 Chicago Architecture Biennal news tag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To coincide with the opening, we have put together a small curated selection of\u00a0what\u2019s in store<\/a>\u00a0for the upcoming sixth edition.<\/p>\n

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Studio Sam Jacob, “Soft Dolmen,” 2024. Inflatable dolmen. Welded PVC, 9\u2019-8\u201d x 15\u2019-7\u201d x 9\u2019-3\u201d. Photo: Markus Pilhofer.<\/p>\n

Chicago Cultural Center Exhibition<\/a>
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Until February 28, 2026
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78 East Washington St<\/p>\n

At the Chicago Cultural Center, visitors will find a general introduction to\u00a0SHIFT, as well as two of the Biennial\u2019s central capsules:\u00a0Inhabit, Outhabit\u00a0and\u00a0The Ordinary-EXTRA. The exhibition is organized around a series of thematic capsules: exhibitions and programs that each explore a particular idea, question, or mode of practice.<\/p>\n

Graham Foundation Exhibition<\/a>
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Until February 28, 2026
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4 W Burton Pl<\/p>\n

At the Graham Foundation,\u00a0Fragmented Manifestos\u00a0brings together a constellation of moments in recent architectural history that emerged in response to periods of radical transformation\u2014political, technological, and cultural.\u00a0Participants include: Stan Allen; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; MOS and Tony Cokes; and Amancio Williams.<\/p>\n

Stony Island Arts Bank Exhibition<\/a>
Until November 30, 2025
6760 S Stony Island Ave<\/p>\n

At the\u00a0Stony Island Arts Bank,\u00a0Melting Solids presents works by five architects and artists reimagining architecture not as fixed or monumental, but as impermanent, adaptive, and rooted in cultural memory. Participants include: Abigail Chang; Dominic Kie\u00dfling; Laboratorio de Arquitectura and Jos\u00e9 Cubilla; Studio Jacob; and WAI Architecture Think Tank.<\/p>\n

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LBBA Architects, “Dreaming of a World” (detail), Common Chicago, MAS Context Reading Room, Chicago, 2025. \u00a9 LBBA Architects.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Exhibition<\/a>
Until February 28, 2026
5700 S. DuSable Lake Shore Dr.<\/p>\n

On the grounds of Jackson Park, site of the 1893 Chicago World\u2019s Fair,\u00a0TRACES\u00a0is a site-specific installation of 10,000 dry-stacked bricks tracing the footprint of the Fair\u2019s temporary Great Buildings. The work invites reflection on the Fair\u2019s ambition and theatrical design, creating spaces without walls and mass without permanence. After the Biennial, the bricks will be reused, leaving no waste\u2014only the memory of the experience.<\/p>\n

Sunken Garden<\/a>
Until September 29, 2025
40-50 W Schiller St<\/p>\n

Sunken Garden\u00a0is a site-specific group exhibition taking place in the courtyard of a 1922 Andrew Rebori\u2013designed building in Chicago. The exhibition explores the poetic and political implications of the \u201csunken garden\u201d\u2014a lowered, sheltered space that becomes both refuge and metaphor. In situ works by Chicago-based artists engaged with architecture, ecology, and material innovation will recontextualize this private courtyard, challenging its boundaries and historical function.<\/p>\n

Common Chicago at MAS Context<\/a>
Until February 28, 2026
1564 N Damen Ave #204<\/p>\n

Our relationship with the built environment is continuously evolving. Environmental challenges, economic and social inequalities, shifting living patterns, and polarizing politics all contribute to the constant reshaping of the physical spaces and intangible conditions that bring people together\u2014or keep them apart. Within this shifting context, how can architects and designers help create common spaces that build stronger and more equitable communities? Common Chicago\u00a0features projects by a spectrum of Chicago-based designers that address this question across a variety of scales and programmatic functions, including civic, institutional, housing, and open space.<\/p>\n

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The flower bed at Lafayette Gardens, designed and tended by the 411 Gardeners for the annual NYCHA competition for best flower garden, 1972. Courtesy of the LaGuardia & Wagner Archives.<\/p>\n

Shakkei: Work by Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust at Elmhurst Art Museum<\/a>
<\/a>Until January 4, 2026
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst<\/p>\n

Shakkei: Work by Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust\u00a0marks the first major museum exhibition for Chicago-based artists Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust. Presented both independently and in collaboration, their work occupies the museum\u2019s main galleries and the historic Mies van der Rohe\u2013designed McCormick House on the museum\u2019s campus. Featuring both new site-responsive installations alongside recent pieces, the exhibition invites viewers into a layered exploration of pattern, place, and cultural memory.<\/p>\n

Living in the Shade: Open Space and Public Housing at National Public Housing Museum<\/a>
<\/a>Until November 9, 2025
919 S Ada St.<\/p>\n

Living in the Shade\u00a0explores the role of open space\u2014large lawns and tenant gardens, paved paths and play spaces, shady seating areas and public art\u2014in creating more livable, healthy, and thriving communities. The exhibit highlights the significant role of open space in the daily lives of millions of public housing residents who have called New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments home.<\/p>\n

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