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.

The second iteration of the Windy City's architecture exhibition spotlights the next generation of architects by looking back.

Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López, and Anna Puigjaner established their Barcelona practice in 2011.

Barkow Leibinger is an American/ German architectural practice based in Berlin and New York and was founded in 1993 by Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger.

Architectural designer Ania Jaworska founded her Chicago-based practice in 2010.