Chicago Architecture Biennial announces 60+ participants

Details of the anticipated Chicago Architecture Biennial continue to emerge. Today, a roster of 63 participating architecture studios and artists representing more than 30 countries was announced.

Biennial co-Artistic Directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda selected the participants alongside a notable advisory committee that includes David Adjaye, Elizabeth Diller, Jeanne Gang, Frank Gehry, Sylvia Lavin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lord Peter Palumbo, and Stanley Tigerman.

Mark those calendars! The Biennial opens on October 3, 2015 through January 3, 2016.

See if any of your favorites are exhibiting in the growing roster below:

• Al Borde (Quito, Ecuador)
• allzone / Rachaporn Choochuey (Bangkok, Thailand)
• Andreas Angelidakis (Athens, Greece)
• Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation (Madrid, Spain; New York, USA)
• ArandaLasch (Tucson, USA; New York, USA)
• Assemble (London, UK)
• Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokyo, Japan)
• Iwan Baan (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Erin Besler / Besler & Sons (Los Angeles, USA)
• Tatiana Bilbao S.C. (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Bjarke Ingels Group / BIG (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Santiago Borja (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Carlos Bunga (Barcelona, Spain)
• Bureau Spectacular / Jimenez Lai (Los Angeles, USA)
• Csutoras & Liando (Jakarta, Indonesia; London, UK)
• Design With Company (Chicago, USA)
• El Equipo de Mazzanti / Giancarlo Mazzanti (Bogota, Colombia)
• Frida Escobedo (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Didier Faustino (Paris, France)
• Moon Hoon (Seoul, Korea)
• Indie Architecture + Paul Preissner Architects (Denver/Chicago, USA)
• John Ronan Architects (Chicago, USA)
• Johnston Marklee (Los Angeles, USA)
• junya.ishigami+associates (Tokyo, Japan)
• Kéré Architecture / Francis Kéré (Berlin, Germany)
• Kuehn Malvezzi (Berlin, Germany)
• Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal and Frederic Druot (Paris, France)
• Yasmeen Lari / Heritage Foundation Pakistan (Lahore, Pakistan)
• Lateral Office (Toronto, Canada)
• LIST / Ido Avissar (Paris, France)
• MAIO (Barcelona, Spain)
• Marshall Brown Projects (Chicago, USA)
• Mass Studies / Minsuk Cho (Seoul, Korea)
• MOS / Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample (New York, USA)
• New-Territories/ M4 / Francois Roche & Camille Lacadee (Paris, France/Bangkok, Thailand)
• NLÉ / Kunlé Adeyemi (Lagos, Nigeria; Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Norman Kelley (Chicago, USA; New York, USA)
• OFFICE / Kersten Geers David Van Severen (Brussels, Belgium)
• Onishimaki + Hyakuda Architects (Tokyo, Japan)
• OPEN Architecture/ Li Hu & Huang Wenjing (Beijing, China)
• Lluís Ortega / Sio2arch (Chicago, USA; Barcelona, Spain)
• otherothers / David Neustein & Grace Mortlock (Sydney, Australia)
• Pedro&Juana (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Concepcion, Chile)
• Plan:b Arquitectos / Felipe Mesa & Federico Mesa (Medellin, Colombia)
• PORT (Chicago, USA)
• PRODUCTORA (Mexico City, Mexico)
• RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances] (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Bryony Roberts (Los Angeles, USA; Oslo, Norway)
• RUA Arquitetos (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Rural Urban Framework (Hong Kong)
• SO-IL (New York, USA)
• Sou Fujimoto Architects (Tokyo, Japan)
• studio Albori (Milan, Italy)
• Studio [D] Tale (Harare, Zimbabwe; Capetown, South Africa; London, UK)
• Studio Gang / Jeanne Gang (Chicago, USA)
• TOMA (Santiago, Chile)
• UrbanLab / Sarah Dunn and Martin Felson (Chicago, USA)
• VTN / Vo Trong Nghia Architects (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
• WAI Architecture Think Tank (Beijing, China)
• Weathers / Sean Lally (Chicago, USA)
• Amanda Williams (Chicago, USA)
• WORKac+ AntFarm / Amale Andraos & Dan Wood, Chip Lord & Curtis Schreier (New York, USA)

The city of Chicago will be the grounds for the Biennial, with works occupying the Chicago Cultural Center as well as other sites including: Millennium Park, City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, 72 E. Randolph, and the Stony Island Arts Bank by acclaimed Chicago artist Theaster Gates.

Be on the lookout for further Biennial programming, special events, and symposia in the coming months.

In case you wanted a refresher, here's a little more info about the event:

"The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial takes its title, The State of the Art of Architecture, from a 1977 conference organized by Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman, which invited leading American designers to Chicago to discuss the current state of the field. The 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial will expand the spirit and scope of this event. It will invite both emerging and established practices from across the world to Chicago to demonstrate how advances in architectural design are tackling today's most pressing issues.

Through a constellation of exhibitions, full-scale installations, and a program of events, the Biennial will invite the public to engage with and think about architecture in new and unexpected ways, and to take part in a global discussion on the future of the field.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel envisioned The Chicago Architecture Biennial, which is an outgrowth of the comprehensive cultural plan developed by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and its commissioner, Michelle T. Boone. Released in October 2012, the Chicago Cultural Plan has created a framework to guide the city's cultural and economic growth."