Sarah Herda, co-director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, on establishing "the city as the site"

From the late 19th century to middle of 20th century, all architecture roads let through Chicago. [...]

Today, Chicago still believes in architecture as a force for defining the future. Architects native to the city and beyond are coming there to grapple with post-industrial decline, gentrification, and, commonly hailed as the most “American of all American cities,” the most American of problems: how to soften the degradations of bone-crushing inequality. — aia.org