INTRODUCTIONLet's say you're throwing a big party.  You take a few weeks to sort out the menu, invite all your friends - you even make sure you clean the bathroom (for real this time).  By the time the last drink is drunk, the last dish piled up in the sink, and the last person tumbling... View full entry

Chicago is hosting North America’s inaugural Architecture Biennial this fall (3 October – 3 January).  Titled “The State of the Art of Architecture,” architectural firms and practices from all six continents have been invited to display their work.  Spanning all sizes and kinds of... View full entry

The Chicago Architecture Biennial is an unbelievably rich, dense, colorful survey of architectural thought all over the globe.  Everything from paper collages to massive urban revitalization projects are represented, and the ideas and conversations being had sparkle with excitement... View full entry

The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial is almost through its first month (it runs now through 3 January 2016).  Playing off of the internationally renowned Venice Architecture Biennale but with a distinctly different flavor and approach, each of the 100+ entries, installations, kiosks, and... View full entry

As a crucible for contemporary architectural practice and thinking, there is nothing quite like a biennial, which is why it’s so extraordinary that Chicago is currently hosting North America’s inaugural Architecture Biennial event. Practices from all over the world come together to showcase... View full entry

The "State of the Art of Architecture," North America's inaugural architecture biennial, is now firmly under way in Chicago.  Over a hundred practices from all over Chicago and the world are displaying projects covering the gamut of types, ideas at stake, and representational scales and modes.An... View full entry

Sound the alarm: the women are missing!Equity By Design (originally named The Missing 32%) is an advocacy group for women architects in the United States.  It started, perhaps inevitably, in San Francisco; architects like Dr. Ila Berman, Cathy Simon, Anne M. Torney, EB Min, and others had begun... View full entry

The Chicago Architecture Biennial is being held primarily at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington, Chicago), and the displays will be spread out throughout and around the entire building; a cogent spatial experience (one hopes!).  But if you'd like to know before you go where the... View full entry

The Chicago Architecture Biennial is almost here, and there are over 100 participants.  Want to check them out on Twitter before you go?  Or, not going to be able to make it and you're looking for a virtual experience?  Below is a list of all participants with official (not personal) Facebook... View full entry

The Chicago Architecture Biennial is almost here, and there are over 100 participants.  Want to check them out on Twitter before you go?  Or, not going to be able to make it and you're looking for a virtual experience?  Below is a list of all participants with Twitter accounts.  Most are at... View full entry

In the vein of trivia, networked knowledge, and of course the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Architectstasy presents: a trivia game for architecture geeks!  It is a mashup of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon plus the Wikipedia Game: linking one topic to the next by six degrees of separation.  For... View full entry

Iwan Baan...

Iwan Baan has been chosen to document Chicago for their first ever Biennial.If you think about it, this is kind of a funny thing to say.  Chicago is already articulate about its architectural identity:it has a well-established architectural foundationit has architecture tours (the river... View full entry

Of the 100+ artists and architects converging on Chicago for North America’s first architecture biennial, a few have given TED talks (some of them more than one).  Whether you’re looking for a TED distraction or wanting to dive into the biennial mood, here is a compilation of CAB... View full entry

TED: Iwan Baan, Ingenious Homes in Unexpected Places

TED: Bjarke Ingels, 3 Warp-Speed Architecture Tales

TED: Bjarke Ingels, Hedonistic Sustainability

TED: Liz Diller, Tech-Empowered Architecture

TED: Liz Diller, A Giant Bubble For Debate

TED: Frank Gehry, Now What?

TED: Frank Gehry, My Days as a Young Rebel

TED: Theaster Gates, Reviving a Neighborhood With Imagination, Beauty, and Art

There’s a new architecture biennial coming to Chicago.This, friends, is a PRETTY BIG DEAL.How big?104 artists and architects from the Magnificent Mile to Madrid, Tel Aviv to Tokyo, will soon be converging on just a few square miles in the heart of the United States for a three-ring, five-star... View full entry