Chicago Architecture Biennial

A photo essay from the press preview of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, which opens today, October 3, and runs through January 3, 2016.

Northeast corner of the Chicago Cultural Center, built in 1893 by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.

The End of Sitting - Cut Out by RAAAF.

Ground floor central staircase.

Polis Station by Studio Gang.

Polis Station by Studio Gang.

Detail of Polis Station by Studio Gang.

LA Recalculated by Smout Allen + Geoff Manaugh.

BUILTHEFIGHT by Didier Faustino.

People's United Nations: pUN by Pedro Reyes.

Rock Print by Gramazio Kohler Research of ETH Zurich and the Self-Assembly Lab of MIT.

Detail of Rock Print.

The Tiffany dome. 

Casa A by Selgascano and Helloeverything

Children's Town by Onishimaki and Hyakudayuki Architects.

Passage by SO-IL.

Passage by SO-IL.

Detail of Passage.

Piranesi Circus by Atelier Bow-Wow.

Making Camp by Lateral Office.

Model detail from Making Camp by Lateral Office.

Rural Collage: Strategies for the Chinese Countryside by Rural Urban Framework.

S House by Vo Trong Ngia Architects.

Detail of S House by Vo Trong Ngia Architects.

Interior of S House by Vo Trong Ngia Architects.

Kanagawa Institute of Technology by Junya Ishigami and Associates.

3-C.CITY: Climate, Convention, and Cruise by WORKac and Ant Farm.

Exquisite Corpse: A Studio Residency for the Land by Nikolaus Hirsch / Michel Muller.

House No. 11 (Corridor House) by MOS Architects.

Architecture is Everywhere by Sou Fujimoto Architects.

Model from Architecture is Everywhere.

Model from Architecture is Everywhere.

Sustainable Housing by Tatiana Bilbao S.C.

Interiors of Sustainable Housing by Tatiana Bilbao S.C.

Sustainable Housing by Tatiana Bilbao S.C.

Color(ed) Theory by Amanda Williams.

Hollow Trunk by Plan:B Arquitectos (left) and Indo-Pacific Atlas by Fake Industries Architectural Agonism and UTS (right).

Hollow Trunk by Plan:B Arquitectos.