Second Chicago Architecture Biennial will "look back to look forward" say artistic directors
This year's Chicago Architecture Biennial will ask architects to consider history in order to shape a direction for future architectural practice, say artistic directors Johnston Marklee.
Set to open next week, the second Chicago Architecture Biennial will show "a cross-section of the best and most innovative work from around the world" according to Mark Lee, who has steered the direction of the event along with partner Sharon Johnston.
The duo, founders of Los Angeles-based architecture studio Johnston Marklee, has gathered a young, diverse group of participants to present projects under the theme Make New History.
The programme will follow on from where the inaugural event left off, with an emphasis on the past, which Johnson and Lee noticed as participants in 2015 as a core theme that emerged. "Overall, the biennial is looking back to look forward," Lee told Dezeen. "We thought history was an important way to re-think its relationship with practice today."
"We are among younger architects who don't have the full context of history that the previous generation had before," he added. "History as a crude body of knowledge that one can tap into."
The main programme for this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial will be hosted at the Chicago Cultural Center
Within the broader theme, sub-categories will include building histories, material histories, image histories and civic histories.
Johnston and Lee believe the last of these...
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