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Chicago Architecture Biennial announces CAB 5 participants

2023-06-05T11:12:00-04:00

Participants in the upcoming 5th edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) have been announced by the organization in a preview of their exhibition titled This is a Rehearsal. The event will open on September 21st at various sites throughout the city.

A total of 50 contributors were announced as part of the Biennial's curatorial process, which is being led by the local artists' collective Floating Museum.

Participants in CAB 5 include the 2023 Leibniz Prize winner Achim Menges; The Bartlett School of Architecture’s new Director Amy Kulper; studio: indigenous founder and academic Chris Cornelius; and Minnesota-based duo Dream The Combine, among a list of other prominent local and international names such as Carol Ross Barney, Camille Henrot, Tschabalala Self, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City.

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Blair Kamin's standout Chicago architects of 2016 are all female, "but that's incidental"

2016-12-22T12:36:00-05:00

Jeanne Gang completed three exceptional projects, including the dramatic Writers Theatre in Glencoe, and saw construction begin on her 98-story Vista Tower [...] Carol Ross Barney finished the latest extension of Chicago's downtown Riverwalk [...] Juanita Irizarry, executive director of Friends of the Parks, led the successful fight against George Lucas' planned narrative art museum [...] What unites these achievements? Probably the fact that gender, in the end, had little to do with them.

Gleaming new CTA station raises question: What price architecture?

2012-05-29T13:55:00-04:00

A safe, clean, on-time ride. That's all most of us expect from the Chicago Transit Authority. But why not ask for something more? Station architecture that puts zing in the journey and elevates the city around it. That's what we get at the crisply modern new Morgan "L" station on Chicago's Near West Side.