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Iwan Baan, Chicago, 2014.

2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial

Sep 29, 2015

Since our founding in 1956, the Graham Foundation has been committed to advancing the most innovative work in the field of architecture. As a Presenting Partner of the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, we extend our support of the field with the introduction of this new international platform for groundbreaking architectural projects and spatial experiments that explore what the built environment should be in the 21st century.

The inaugural biennial takes its title, The State of the Art of Architecture, from a provocative 1977 conference organized by architect Stanley Tigerman, which invited leading American designers, such as Colin Rowe, Charles Jencks, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier, to the Graham Foundation in Chicago to discuss the current state of the field. The 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial expands the spirit and scope of this event and invites over 100 emerging and established practices from across the world to Chicago to demonstrate how advances in architectural design are tackling the most pressing issues of today.

Below are some of the many Graham-supported participants and public programs appearing in the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial:

Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative

Sebastian Alvarez, Andrew Benz, Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke

Aranda\Lasch

Art Institute of Chicago

Iwan Baan

BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)

Santiago Borja

David Brown

Katarina Burin

Chicago Architecture Foundation

Chicago Design Museum