We’re joining forces with the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival to bring the Terrain Biennial 2023 Block Party to the North Lawndale neighborhood.
Join us for the Opening Celebration of the second annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, featuring CAB 5 participants Could Be Design.
The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival pairs community organizations in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood with diverse architectural designers to design and construct sukkahs, small outdoor pavilions built for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival is co-hosted by Could Be Design and the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot.
Join us for a presentation by CAB 5 participant and Villa Albertine Artist in Residence Feda Wardak.
Artist Rathin Barman’s work, currently on view at The Arts Club, evokes the palatial colonial villas in Kolkata, many now taken over by migrants fleeing violence. This correlation between colonialism and asylum seekers is crucial, as most refugees trying to reach Europe hail from former colonies. Esther da Costa Meyer, Visiting Professor at the Yale University School of Architecture, will explore the architecture of refugee camps.
Marion Waller, Director of the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris and urban planner, is theauthor of Natural Artifacts. She’ll be in conversation with Andrew Todd, architect founder of studio Andrew Todd, and author of The Clearing. The talk will be followed by a book sale andsigning session with authors.
The Riverside Arts Center presents Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside. This FlexSpace exhibition is guest co-curated by Kim Freeark (Riverside homeowner) and Michelangelo Sabatino (Riverside homeowner, architectural historian and preservationist).
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 10, 2023, 3:00 – 6:00 pm
An invitational exhibit, both real and virtual, of original writings, texts, illustrations, sketches, watercolors, paintings, photos, maquettes, mock-ups, renderings, carving, reliefs, and sculpture: Exploring a wide range of scales, considering architectural form and space making while cataloging applications to many parts of the built environment.
Discover the intriguing relationship between architecture and the lives of its inhabitants as artist Arina Däehnick presents her photography exhibition, Living with Mies. Through her lens, experience the essence of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic structures as they are brought to life by the residents who inhabit them. This exhibit offers a unique perspective on how people connect with and shape the spaces they call home.
Lived spaces are not just pieces of architecture; they are anthropological tools to explore history, memory, and even human behavior. Over time, the relationship between homes and their occupants changes through structural additions or functional shifts. Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures emerges from many such stories of the restructuring of domestic space. In particular, the artist considers the legacy of colonial mansions in the artist’s hometown of Kolkata, India. These grand, luxurious buildings have been repopulated over time by migrants who come to the urban center to escape conflict, climate change, famine, or political unrest. Barman’s sculptures begin with a sense of dwelling borne out of the isolation of the pandemic and in light of ongoing pressures to house the dispossessed across the globe.
The Thompson Center's installations and programs for the citywide Biennial will open in phases, starting September 21
Known internationally for their ambitious public art projects and transgressive performances, Gelitin are indefatigable partisans of the ludic impulse in art, forever honoring Friedrich Schiller’s claim that “man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays.” This exhibition features a monumental sculpture of a pizza that guests will be invited to activate by poking their heads through to make toppings. The work will make a brief public appearance at the Chicago Cultural Center on September 21 as part of the opening of the fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial.
The weekly farmer’s market runs Spring through Fall and connects residents with Black-owned businesses selling locally-grown produce and goods.
Presented as a partner project of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Water uses the Chicago River as an entryway to discuss the interconnectedness and relational importance of water upon the City and its people.
Spirit Houses reflects a necessary expansion and intervention into the largely secular world of industrial design that responds to and serves our everyday needs through the creation of products, furniture, and devices.
Opening reception: Friday, September 8, 2023 5:00pm
