SHIFT: The GSD at the 6th Chicago Architecture Biennial

In a dynamic, PechaKucha format, the GSD presents and celebrates a sampling of projects exhibited at the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 6), which takes place on sites throughout Chicago from September 19, 2025, to February 28, 2026. The biennial theme, SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, signals the opportunity to change direction—an invitation to think with others and to set new grounds for the interpretation and design of our built environment. Featuring over 100 projects by architects, artists, and designers from 30 countries, CAB 6 explores how architecture engages with the profound cultural, social, and environmental transformations shaping our world today, and considers possibilities for envisioning alternate paths forward.  

This event features presentations by several GSD-affiliated exhibitors—including Sean Canty, Abigail Chang, Iman Fayyad, Jenny and Anda French, Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow, Grace La and James Dallman, Alex Yueyan Li, and Oscar Zamora—followed by a conversation about the biennial and its curatorial aims, moderated by the biennial’s artistic director Florencia Rodriquez.