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Explore the variety of the Chicago Architecture Biennial's contributors.
| Artistic Directors | Country |
|---|---|
| David Brown | Chicago, United States |
Floating Museum | Chicago, United States |
| Johnston Marklee | Los Angeles, United States |
Joseph Grima | Genoa, Italy |
| Sarah Herda | Chicago, United States |
Yesomi Umolu |
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| Participants | Country |
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3D Design Studio | Chicago, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
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51N4E | Brussels, Belgium; Tirana, Albania |
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| Participants | Country |
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6a Architects | London, United Kingdom |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
A Long Walk Home | Chicago, United States |
Ábalos + Sentkiewicz and Armin Linke | Madrid, Spain; Cambridge, United States; Shanghai, China |
| Adamo-Faiden | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| addenda architects with Joachim Brohm and Moritz Küng | Barcelona, Spain; Leipzig, Germany |
Adrian Blackwell | Toronto, Canada |
| Adrienne Brown | Chicago, United States |
AGENdA with Camilo Echavarría and Camilo Echeverri | Medellín, Colombia |
Aires Mateus | Lisbon, Portugal |
Akinbode Akinbiyi | Berlin, Germany |
Al Borde | Quinto, Ecuador |
Alejandra Celedón, Nicolás Stutzin, and Javier Correa | Santiago, Chile |
| Alexander Eisenschmidt | Chicago, United States |
Alexandra Pirici | Bucharest, Romania |
all(zone) | Bangkok, Thailand |
Amanda Williams | Chicago, United States |
American Indian Center | Chicago, United States |
Amy Kulper + PROPS SUPPLY | London, England (United Kingdom) |
| Ana Miljački | Boston, United States |
Andrea Carlson | Chicago, United States & Grand Marais, United States |
Andreas Angelidakis | Athens, Greece |
Andrés Jaque/ Office for Political Innovation | Madrid, Spain; New York, United States |
| Andrew Kovacs | Los Angeles, United States |
| Angela Deuber Architect | Chur, Switzerland |
Ania Jaworska | Chicago, United States |
Anne Lacaton & Jean-Phillipe Vassal + Frédéric Druot | Paris, France |
Anupama Kundoo Atelier GmbH | Berlin, Germany |
Aranda/Lasch | Tucson and New York, United States |
Aranda\Lasch and Terrol Dew Johnson | New York and Tucson, United States |
Archi-Union | Shanghai, China |
Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu | Ghent, Belgium |
Architecture of the VII Day | Wrocław, Poland |
Asim Waqif | New Delhi, India |
Assaf Evron | Chicago, United States; Tel Aviv, Israel |
Assemble | London, United Kingdom |
Atelier Bow-Wow | Tokyo, Japan |
Atelier Manferdini | Venice, United States |
| atelier masomi | Niamey, Niger |
Avijit Mukul Kishore & Rohan Shivkumar | Mumbai, India |
Aviwe Mandyanda (BlackStudio) | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| AWP office for territorial reconfiguration | Paris, France; London, United Kingdom |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
Baerbel Mueller | Accra, Ghana & Vienna, Austria |
| Bak Gordon Arquitectos | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Barbara Kasten | Chicago, United States |
| Barbas Lopes Arquitectos | Lisbon, Portugal |
Barkow Leibinger | Berlin, Germany |
| Barozzi Veiga | Barcelona, Spain |
Baukuh + Stefano Graziani + YellowOffice | Milan, Italy |
baukuh and Stefano Graziani | Milan and Genoa, Italy |
Besler & Sons + ATLV | Los Angeles, United States |
| Besler & Sons LLC | Los Angeles, United States |
BIG- Bjarke Ingels Group | Copenhagen, Denmark; New York, United States |
Black Quantum Futurism | Philadelphia, United States |
Black Reconstruction Collective | United States |
BLESS | Berlin, Germany |
| BNMO Design | Chicago, United States |
Borderless Studio | Chicago, United States |
BOTANICAL CITY | Chicago, United States & New York, United States |
Brandlhuber+ and Christopher Roth | Berlin, Germany |
| Brian Holmes | Chicago, United States |
Bryony Roberts + South Shore Drill Team | Los Angeles and Chicago, United States |
BUREAU SPECTACULAR | Los Angeles, United States |
Bureau Spectacular | Los Angeles, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
d-Lab | Segovia and Madrid, Spain |
DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency) | Beit Sahour, Palestine |
Dan Peterman | Chicago, United States |
Daniel Everett | Salt Lake City and Chicago, United States |
David Benjamin / The Living and GSAPP Footprint Project | New York City, United States |
David Schalliol | Chicago, United States |
Deane Simpson | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Deb Sokolow | Chicago, United States |
| Dellekamp Arquitectos | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Departamento del Distrito | Mexico City, Mexico |
Depave Chicago and The Montessori School of Englewood | Chicago, United States |
Design With Company | Chicago, United States |
Diana Al-Hadid | New York, United States |
Diane Simpson | Chicago, United States |
Didier Faustino | Paris, France |
| Diego Arraigada Arquitectos | Rosario, Argentina |
Do Ho Suh | London, England |
| DOGMA | Brussels, Belgium |
| Dominique Perrault | Paris, France |
Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva | Vancouver, Canada |
| Drawing Architecture Studio | Beijing, China |
| DRDH | London, United Kingdom |
Dream The Combine | Ithaca and Minneapolis, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
Edra Soto | Chicago, United States |
Eduardo O. Kohn | Montreal, Canada |
| El Cielo | Mexico City, Mexico |
El Equipo de Mazzanti + Nicolás Paris | Bogotá, Colombia |
| El Paseo Community Garden | Chicago, United States |
| Elizabeth Catlet | |
| Elizabeth Todd-Breland | Chicago, United States |
ELLA | Los Angeles, United States |
| Elleza Kelley | New Haven and New York, United States |
Emmanuel Pratt | Chicago, United States |
| Englewood Nature Trail | Chicago, United States |
| Enlace Arquitectura + Ciudad Laboratorio | Caracas, Venezuela |
Ensamble Studio | Madrid, Spain; Boston, United States |
Éric Lapierre Architecture | Paris, France |
Eve L. Ewing | Chicago, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
Fake Industries Architectural Agonism + University of Technology Sydney | New York, United States; Sydney, Australia |
| Fake Industries Architectural Agonisms / Aixopluc | New York, United States; Sydney, Australia |
| fala atelier | Porto, Portugal |
Feda Wardak | Paris, France |
FICA–Fundo Imobiliário Comunitário para Aluguel | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Filip Dujardin | Ghent, Belgium |
Fiona Connor and Erin Besler | Los Angeles, United States; Auckland, New Zealand |
| First Office | Los Angeles, United States |
Forensic Architecture & Invisible Institute | London, England; Chicago, United States |
| formlessfinder | New York City, United States |
Fosbury Architecture | Milan, Italy; Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Francois Perrin | Los Angeles, United States |
| Freedom House | Chicago, United States |
Frida Escobedo Taller de Arquitectura | Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
Gamaliel Rodriguez | Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico |
Gelitin | Vienna, Austria |
| Gensler | Los Angeles and Chicago, United States |
Gerard & Kelly | Los Angeles and New York, United States |
| Germane Barnes, Studio Barnes with Shawhin Roudbari and MAS Context | Miami, United States |
Go Hasegawa | Tokyo, Japan |
| Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zürich + Self Assembly Lab, MIT | Zürich, Switzerland; Cambridge, United States |
| Grow Greater Englewood | Chicago, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
| Haman Cross, Freedom House | Chicago, United States |
Helmo | Montreuil, France |
Herkes İçin Mimarlık (Architecture For All) | Istanbul, Turkey |
HHF Architects | Basel, Switzerland |
| Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape | Chicago, United States |
| Hood Design Studio | Oakland, United States |
House of Kapwa | Chicago, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
inference | Chicago, United States |
J.MAYER H. und Partner, Architekten MBB and Philip Ursprung | Berlin, Germany |
| JAHN | Chicago, United States |
James Welling | New York City, United States |
Jan Tichy | Chicago, United States |
Jean-Marie Appriou | Paris, France |
Jeff Carter | Chicago, United States |
Jennifer Reeder | Chicago, United States |
| Jennifer Scott | New York, United States |
Jesús Vassallo | Houston, United States |
| JGMA | Chicago, United States |
| Jill Desimini | Cambridge, United States |
Jimmy Robert | Berlin, Germany |
Joar Nango | Alta, Norway |
Jody Graf | New York City, United States |
| John Low | |
| John Ronan Architects | Chicago, United States |
Jorge González | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Jorge Otero-Pailos | New York City, United States |
June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff | New York, United States; Berlin, Germany |
junya.ishigami + associates | Tokyo, Japan |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
Kane One of Graffiti Institute | Chicago, United States |
Karamuk * Kuo Architects | Zurich, Switzerland; New York, United States |
Katharina Gaenssler | Munich, Germany |
Keith Krumwiede | New York City, United States |
Keleketla! Library | Johannesburg, South Africa |
Keller Easterling | New York, United States |
Kéré Architecture | Berlin, Germany |
Khoury Levit Fong | Toronto, Canada |
Kiel Moe | Halifax, United States |
| Krueck + Sexton | Chicago, United States |
| Kuehn Malvezzi | Berlin, Germany |
| Kuehn Malvezzi + Armin Linke + Marko Lulić | Berlin, Germany; Milan, Italy; Vienna, Austria |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
l’AUC as l’AUC with Antoine Espinasseau and Maxime Delvaux | Paris, France |
LAN with Franck Boutté and project produced by Pavillon de l’Arsenal | Paris, France |
| Landon Bone Baker | Chicago, United States |
LANZA Atelier | Mexico City, Mexico |
Larissa Fassler | Berlin, Germany |
| Lateral Office | Toronto, Canada |
| LCLA Office / Luis Callejas with Charlotte Hansson | Medellín, Colombia; Cambridge, United States |
Lesley Lokko | Accra, Ghana |
Leticia Pardo | Chicago, United States & CDMX, Mexico |
| Liam Young | London, United Kingdom |
Limbo Accra | Accra, Ghana |
| Lisa Yun Lee | Chicago, United States |
| LIST | Paris, France |
LOT-EK | New York, United States |
Luisa Lambri | Milan, Italy |
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten | Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
Machine Project | Los Angeles, United States |
Made In | Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland |
| MAIO | Barcelona, Spain |
| Maite Borjabad | Chicago, United States |
| Makeka Design Lab | Cape Town, South Africa |
MALL | Cambridge, United States |
| Manuel Herz Architects | Basel, Switzerland |
| Margaret McCurry | Chicago, United States |
Maria Gaspar | Chicago, United States |
| Marianne Mueller | Zurich, Switzerland |
Mario Gooden | New York, United States |
| Mark Wasiuta, Marcos Sánchez, Adam Bandler + GSAPP Exhibitions | Los Angeles and New York, United States |
Marshall Brown | Chicago, United States |
Marya Demetra Kanakis | Chicago, United States |
MASS Design Group  | Boston, United States |
| Mass Studies + Hyun-Suk SEO | Seoul, Korea |
Matilde Cassani | Milano, Italy |
| Matri-Archi(tecture) | Cambridge, UK |
MG&Co. | Houston, United States |
| Michael Pecirno | London, United Kingdom |
Michelle Chang | Houston, United States |
| Michelle Wilkinson | Washington, DC, United States |
| Mobile Makers | Chicago, United States |
Modou Dieng Yacine | Chicago, United States |
Monadnock with the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Moon Hoon | Seoul, Korea |
| MOS | New York City, United States |
MSTC – City Center Homeless People’s Movement, São Paulo in collaboration with Escola da Cidade and O Grupo Inteiro | São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
| New-Territories / M4 | Paris, France; Bangkok, Thailand |
| Nikolaus Hirsch/Michel Müller | Frankfurt, Germany |
| NLÉ | Lagos, Nigeria; Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Noero Architects | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Norman Kelley | Chicago and New York, United States |
| Norman Teague Design Studios | Chicago, United States |
Norman Teague Design Studios / Tonika Johnson / Max Davis / Ernest Wong / Mejay Gula / Tanner Woodford | Chicago, United States |
Nuno Brandão Costa with André Cepeda | Porto, Portugal |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
| OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen + Bas Princen | Brussels, Belgium; Rotterdam, Netherlands |
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen with Peter Wächtler and Michael Van den Abeele | Brussels, Belgium |
Ola Hassanain | Utrecht, Netherlands |
| onishimaki + hyakudayuki architects | Tokyo, Japan |
| OPEN Architecture + Spirit of Space | Beijing, China; Chicago, United States |
| Open Architecture Chicago | Chicago, United States |
Oren Pinhassi | New York, United States |
Oscar Tuazon | Los Angeles, United States |
| otherothers | Sydney, Australia |
| Outpost Office | Columbus, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
| RAAAF [RIETVELD ARCHITECTURE-ART-AFFORDANCES] | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Ramak Fazel | Los Angeles, United States |
Raumlabor | Berlin, Germany |
| Rayna Razmilic | Santiago, Chile |
REAL Foundation | London, United Kingdom |
Red Clay Dance Company | Chicago, United States |
| RIFF Studio | New York, United States |
RIWAQ – Center for Architectural Conservation (founded in Ramallah, Palestine) in collaboration with Arch. Yara Sharif and Arch. Nasser Golzari (London, UK). | Ramallah, Palestine |
RMA Architects | Boston, United States; Mumbai, India |
Robert Somol | Chicago, United States |
Roy Kinsey | Chicago, United States |
| RUA Arquitetos | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Rural Urban Framework | Hong Kong, China |
Ruth de Jong | Livingston, USA |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
SADAR + VUGA | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Sam Jacob Studio | London, United Kingdom |
SAMI-arquitectos with Paulo Catrica | Setubal, Portugal |
Sammy Baloji & Filip de Boeck | Brussels, Belgium; Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo |
Samuel Levi Jones, LAA Office, and Sam Van Aken | New York, United States and Indiana, United States |
| Santiago Borja | Mexico City, Mexico |
Santiago X, Koasati/Chamoru | Chicago, United States |
Sauter von Moos | Basel, Switzerland |
Scott Fortino | Chicago, United States |
| sekou cooke STUDIO | Charlotte, United States |
| selgascano + helloeverything | Madrid, Spain |
Sergison Bates | London, United Kingdom; Zurich, Switzerland |
Serie Architects | London, United Kingdom |
Settler Colonial City Project: Andrew Herscher, Ana María León, and American Indian Center | Ann Arbor, United States |
| SHAU | Bandung, Indonesia |
| Shiben Banerji | |
SHINGO MASUDA + KATSUHISA OTSUBO Architects | Tokyo, Japan |
| Sio2arch | Barcelona, Spain; Chicago, United States |
Site / Site Design Group, LTD. | Chicago, United States |
SKETCH | Panama City, Panama |
| Slo ‘Mo | Chicago, United States |
| Smout Allen + Geoff Manaugh | London, United Kingdom |
| SO-IL | New York, United States |
SO-IL and Ana Prvački | Los Angeles and New York, United States |
| Soil Lab | Dublin, Ireland; Copenhagen, Denmark |
| SOM + CAMESgibson | Chicago, United States |
Somatic Collaborative (Felipe Correa & Devin Dobrowolski) | New York, United States |
| Sou Fujimoto Architects | Tokyo, Japan |
South Side Community Art Center | Chicago, United States |
SpaceShift | Chicago, United States |
Stan Allen Architect | New York City, United States |
| Stanley Tigerman | Chicago, United States |
Steel Studio | Gary, United States |
| Stefan Gruber | Pittsburgh, United States |
| Stefano Boeri Architetti | Milan, Italy |
Stephen Willats | London, England |
Storefront for Art and Architecture | New York, United States |
Stoss Landscape Urbanism | Boston, United States |
| Studio [D] Tale | Harare, Zimbabwe; Cape Town, South Africa; London, United Kingdom |
| Studio Albori | Milan, Italy |
Studio Anne Holtrop | Muharraq, Bahrain; Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Studio Barnes with Shawin Roudbari and MAS Context | Miami, Denver and Chicago, United States |
Studio Chahar in collaboration with The Apprenticeshop | Boston, USA and Tehran, Iran |
Studio Gang | Chicago and New York City, United States |
Studio Mumbai | Mumbai, India |
| Studio Ossidiana | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| studioAPT | Ann Arbor, United States |
studioBASAR | Bucharest, Romania |
Sweet Water Foundation | Chicago, United States |
Sylvia Lavin with Erin Besler, Jessica Colangelo and Norman Kelly | Los Angeles, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
Ugo Rondinone | New York, United States |
| Under the Grid | Chicago, United States |
| Urban American City | New York, United States |
Urban Growers Collective with Lead Artist Erika Allen | Chicago, United States |
| UrbanLab | Chicago, United States |
Urbanus | Shenzen and Beijing, China |
urbz | Mumbai, India |
Usina – CTAH | São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
Veronika Kellndorfer | Berlin, Germany |
Vincent Meessen | Brussels, Belgium |
Vincent Tao | Vancouver, Canada |
Virginia de Medeiros | São Paulo, Brazil |
Vivien Sansour | Bethlehem, Palestine |
| Vo Trong Nghia Architects | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
Vyjayanthi Rao and Kush Badhwar with Sagarika Sundaram | New York, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
| WAI Architecture Think Tank | Beijing, China |
Walter J. Hood | Oakland, United States |
| WEATHERS | Chicago, United States |
WELCOMEPROJECTS | Los Angeles, United States |
Wendelien van Oldenborgh | Berlin, Germany |
| Westside Association for Community Action | Chicago, United States |
WOJR | Cambridge, United States |
Wolff Architects | Cape Town, South Africa |
| WORKac + Ant Farm | New York, United States |
WORKac with James Ewing | New York City, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
| Yasmeen Lari + Heritage Foundation of Pakistan | Karachi, Pakistan |
| YMEN | Chicago, United States |
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| Participants | Country |
|---|---|
Zago Architecture | Los Angeles, United States |
ZAO/standardarchitecture | Beijing, China |
Zorka Wollny | Berlin, Germany |