The board of the Chicago Architecture Biennial announced this morning an initial list of 51 contributors to its 2019 event, which is titled ...and other such stories. The group represents approximately half of the projected participants and includes architects, artists, collectives, and researchers from 19 countries across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Each will exhibit either new or specially commissioned projects that together compose a multifaceted exploration of how architecture and the built environment relate to land, memory, rights, and civic participation on a global scale.
Unlike the 2017 Biennial, Make New History, curated by Los Angeles architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, which looked inward to contemplate the importance of historical precedent in current practice, the 2019 exhibition does not consider architecture with a capital “A,” but instead explores how the field is implicated in the production of space, historically, politically, and socio-economically. According to this year’s artistic director, the Chicago-based curator and writer Yesomi Umolu, contributors’ projects “resonate deeply with our four curatorial focus areas,” and address “some of the most pressing issues of our time while advancing new forms of thinking and practice across architecture and beyond.”
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