Preparations for the second Chicago Architecture Biennial are in full swing, with the big reveal of the 2017 participants today. Titled “Make New History” and with Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee as Artistic Directors, the 2017 roster has the names of over 100 firms — many of them well-known — representing over 20 countries. The 2017 CAB will take place at the Chicago Cultural Center and additional sites across the city from September 16 through January 7, 2018.

Building upon the themes and ideas presented in the successful 2015 edition, the 2017 biennial will showcase a diversity of architectural work from across the globe and will focus on “examining the underpinnings of this resurgence of historical interest” and “the efforts of contemporary architects to align their work with versions of history.”

“We hope to examine, through the work of the chosen participants, the continuous engagement with questions of history and architecture as an evolutionary practice,” Sharon Johnston says.

Here's the full line-up of participants, in alphabetical order:

James Welling, 8554, 2006/17, from the series Chicago, 2016-2017, Courtesy the Artist and David Zwirner, New York/London.

• 51N4E (Brussels, Belgium; Tirana, Albania)
• 6A Architects (London, UK)
• Ábalos+Sentkiewicz (Madrid, Spain; Cambridge, USA; Shanghai, China)
• Adamo-Faiden (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• AGENdA agencia de arquitectura (Medellin, Colombia)
• Aires Mateus (Lisbon, Portugal)
• Ana Prvački and SO-IL (Los Angeles, USA; New York, USA)
• Andrew Kovacs (Los Angeles, USA)
• Angela Deuber Architect (Chur, Switzerland)
• Ania Jaworska (Chicago, USA)
• Aranda\Lasch and Terrol Dew Johnson (New York, USA; Tucson, USA)

Newport Street Gallery by Caruso St John. Photo: Hélène Binet.

• Archi-Union (Shanghai, China)
• Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu (Ghent, Belgium)
• Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth (Berlin, Germany)
• Atelier Manferdini (Venice, USA)
• AWP office for territorial reconfiguration (Paris, France; London, UK)
• Bak Gordon Arquitectos (Lisbon, Portugal)
• Barbas Lopes (Lisbon, Portugal)

Aufbau Haus 84 by Barkow Leibinger. Photo © Stefan Müller.

• Barkow Leibinger (Berlin, Germany)
• baukuh (Milan, Italy)
• Besler & Sons LLC (Los Angeles, USA)
• BLESS (Berlin, Germany)
• BUREAU SPECTACULAR (Los Angeles, USA)
• Caruso St John (London, UK)
• Charlap Hyman & Herrero (Los Angeles, USA; New York, USA)
• Charles Waldheim (Cambridge, USA)
• Christ & Gantenbein (Basel, Switzerland)
• Daniel Everett (Chicago, USA; Salt Lake City, USA)
• David Schalliol (Chicago, USA)
• Dellekamp Arquitectos (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Design With Company (Chicago, USA)
• Diego Arraigada Arquitectos (Rosario, Argentina)
• DOGMA (Brussels, Belgium)
• DRDH (London, UK)
• ENSAMBLE STUDIO (Madrid, Spain; Boston, USA)
• Éric Lapierre Architecture (Paris, France)
• Estudio Barozzi Veiga (Barcelona, Spain)

The Philharmonic Hall of Szczecin by Barozzi / Veiga. Photo © Simon Menges. 

• fala atelier (Porto, Portugal)
• Filip Dujardin (Ghent, Belgium)
• Fiona Connor and Erin Besler (Los Angeles, USA; Auckland, New Zealand)
• First Office (Los Angeles, USA)
• formlessfinder (New York, USA)
• Frida Escobedo (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Gerard and Kelly (Los Angeles, USA; New York, USA)
• Go Hasegawa (Tokyo, Japan)
• HHF Architects (Basel, Switzerland)
• Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Chicago, USA)
• J. MAYER H. und Partner, Architekten and Philip Ursprung (Berlin, Germany)
• James Welling (New York, USA)

The Vault House in Oxnard by Johnston Marklee. Credit: Johnston Marklee.

• Jesús Vassallo (Houston, USA)
• Jorge Otero-Pailos (New York, USA)
• June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff (New York, USA; Berlin, Germany)
• Karamuk * Kuo Architects (New York, USA; Zurich, Switzerland)
• Keith Krumwiede (New York, USA)
• Kéré Architecture (Berlin, Germany)
• Kuehn Malvezzi (Berlin, Germany)
• Luisa Lambri (Milan, Italy)
• Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Made In (Geneva, Switzerland; Zurich, Switzerland)
• MAIO (Barcelona, Spain)

MAIO Studio, Barcelona, 2011-12. Photo: José Hevia.

• Marianne Mueller (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Marshall Brown (Chicago, USA)
• MG&Co. (Houston, USA)
• MONADNOCK (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
• MOS (New York, USA)
• Norman Kelley (Chicago, USA; New York, USA)
• Nuno brandåo costa arquitectos Ida (Porto, Portugal)
• OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen (Brussels, Belgium)
• PASCAL FLAMMER (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Patrick Braouezec (Paris, France)
• Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner (Chicago, USA; Denver, USA)
• Pezo Von Ellrichshausen (Concepción, Chile)

James Welling, 8482, 2016, from the series Chicago, 2016-2017, Courtesy the Artist and David Zwirner, New York/London. 

• Philipp Schaerer (Zurich, Switzerland)
• PRODUCTORA (Mexico City, Mexico)
• REAL Foundation (London, UK)
• Robert Somol (Chicago, USA)
• SADAR+VUGA (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Sam Jacob Studio (London, UK)
• SAMI-arquitectos (Setubal, Portugal)
• SANAA (Tokyo, Japan)
• Sauter von Moos (Basel, Switzerland)
• Sergison Bates (London, UK; Zurich, Switzerland)
• Serie Architects (London, UK; Zurich, Switzerland)
• SHINGO MASUDA+KATSUHISA OTSUBO Architects (Tokyo, Japan)

Grace Farms “River” by SANAA. Photo © Iwan Baan.

• Stan Allen Architect (New York, USA)
• Studio Anne Holtrop (Muharraq, Bahrain; Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Studiomumbai (Mumbai, India)
• Sylvia Lavin (Los Angeles, USA)
• T+E+A+M (Ann Arbor, USA)
• Tatiana Bilbao Estudio (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Tham & Videgård Arkitekter (Stockholm, Sweden)
• The Empire (Verona, Italy)
• The Living (New York, USA)
• The Los Angeles Design Group (Los Angeles, USA)
• Thomas Baecker Bettina Kraus (Berlin, Germany)
• Tigerman McCurry Architects (Chicago, USA)

Air Traffic Control Center by SADAR+VUGA. Photo: Miran Kambic.

• Toshiko Mori Architect (New York, USA)
• UrbanLab (Chicago, USA; Los Angeles, USA)
• Urbanus (Shenzhen, China; Beijing, China)
• Veronika Kellndorfer (Berlin, Germany)
• WELCOMEPROJECTS (Los Angeles, USA)
• Work Architecture Company (New York, USA)
• Zago Architecture (Los Angeles, USA)
• ZAO/standardarchitecture (Shanghai, China)

“Through presenting a variety of work, we aim to give visitors of all kinds, from leaders across the global architecture community to the interested traveler, an in-depth look at architecture as we know it today, and the chance to be inspired by how architecture is making new history in cities around the world,” said Todd Palmer, Executive Director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, in a statement. 

Check out Archinect's previous coverage of the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial here.