The initial show in the new space ponders the architecture of reparations in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood.

David Brown has been named artistic director for The Available City.

Pushing the limits on the definition of practice, curators commissioned participants from fields beyond those typically represented in architectural expositions.

Some 80 contributors from across the globe will present work, much of it new, that investigates how architecture relates to land, memory, rights, and civic participation.

This year’s contributors hail from 19 countries across the globe.

The 2019 event, which kicks off September 19, will consider questions of land, memory, rights, and civic participation while embracing a broad range of perspectives on architecture.

The newly named artistic director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial plans to apply her multi-disciplinary expertise to an exposition that speaks to an equally wide range of public audiences.

With a background in architectural design and curatorial studies, Umolu will lead the third edition of the exposition.