An Architectural Autumn in Chicago: The Inaugural Architecture Biennial

  The City of Chicago has for centuries championed architectural innovation by consistently being a force in determining where and how we as Americans, and humans, live and work. People who do live and work in Chicago experience groundbreaking architectural projects and spatial experiments on a very immediate level, and the city’s rich history in architectural excellence is baked into the fabric of every building, old and new. The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), titled The State of the Art of Architecture, aims to both celebrate the city’s leadership in architecture and continue its tradition of pushing forward radical new thought about what the built environment should be in the 21st Century. The Biennial opened to the public on October 3, 2015 and will continue through January 3, 2016. The first year of CAB will give voice to the ways in which architects, artists, designers, planners, activists and policy makers …