Just as the most iconic building of the recent past, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, is turning 20 years old, the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) offers some hints about who could design the next one. And it may well not be one of the usual suspects.
The Biennial, which opened September 16 and runs through January 7, is showcasing the work of more than 140 architects, designers, and allied artists from around the world, many of them relatively unknown in the U.S. While a few more senior figures—Toshiko Mori, Dominique Perrault, Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA—are included, most of the participants represent a new generation of talent, closer in age to CAB’s artistic directors—Sharon Johnston, 51, and Mark Lee, 49—or younger. The couple, founding partners of the nearly 20-year-old Los Angeles–based firm Johnston Marklee, are themselves having a banner year, not only with the Biennial but also the unveiling of their redesign of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (page 51), and the imminent completion of the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, their most important project to date.
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