Photo: © Chicago Architecture Biennial / Nathan Keay, 2020
For the fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, guest co-editors Kekeli Sumah and F. Philip Barash developed an issue that highlights the voices of colleagues and amplifies the important message of “The Available City.”
The Geography of Emptiness: Newcity Explores the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
An introduction from Kekeli Sumah and F. Philip Barash
Welcome to “The Available City”: What To Know And Where To Go For the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
By Tanner Woodford
What is Available? Seeing 125 Million Square Feet of Chicago
By Heidi Metcalf
A Shot in the Arm: Temporary Interventions Can Be Long-Term Investments In Neighborhoods
By Ernie Wong
Robot Ballet and Urban Scale Paintings: Outpost Office See Midwestern Landscapes as Both Resource and Inspiration
By Sarah Herda
The Future Is Shared: Restitution and Reparations in Englewood
By Aaron Rose
Rising From the Earth: Soil Lab Uncovers Layers of Chicago Histories
By Joel Kuennen
Vacant Still?
Photo essay by Biyun Feng
Altgeld’s Tactical Gardens: Lessons to Learn from People for Community Recovery
By Alberto Ortega Trejo
Is There a Hippocratic Oath for Architects?: A Conversation With Hip-Hop Architecture’s Craig Wilkins
By Marisa Novara
Against the Biennial Industrial Complex: “The Available City” Is Chicago’s Anti-Biennial
By Cecília Resende Santos