After the runaway success of last year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), organizers announced plans for the 2017 edition. At a press briefing yesterday at the Chicago Cultural Center, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CAB officials named Los Angeles-based architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee artistic directors and selected Todd Palmer, associate director and curator of the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM), as the show’s executive director. Johnston and Lee will select the international roster of participants, while Palmer will ground the show in connections to Chicago’s cultural and social life.
The 2017 theme will be “Make New History,” and, according to the curators, focus on the relationship between modernity and history, and the relationship between art and architecture. “The first [theme] is more inwardly focused within the discipline,” said Lee at a press conference yesterday, “and the second one is more outwardly focused with the different disciplines.”
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