Archinect - News 2024-05-04T09:18:10-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/128711733/sarah-herda-co-director-of-the-chicago-architecture-biennial-on-establishing-the-city-as-the-site Sarah Herda, co-director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, on establishing "the city as the site" Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-06-03T13:33:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3f/3f7086f6ae3e486ab7af771e02fbd8fc?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>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 &ldquo;American of all American cities,&rdquo; the most American of problems: how to soften the degradations of bone-crushing inequality.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>