Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025: Shaping Spaces in Times of Change

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R&R Studios at the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025 - Photo by Bob, Robert Heishman.

Under the theme SHIFT, the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025 reflects on architecture’s capacity to respond to global challenges.

Natural Intelligens: architecture harnesses the power of Nature at the Venice Biennale

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Natural Intelligens section of the 2025 Venice Biennale - Photo by Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia.

How can architecture tackle climate change? The Natural Intelligens section at Carlo Ratti’s Venice Biennale explores nature-driven solutions, from pachidems’ dung bricks to architecturally grown branches, city-dwelling bugs’ homes, and structures grown by microbes.

Bruges Triennial 2024 explores the architectural potential of the Belgian city

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Who? installation by Ivàn Argote at Bruges Triennial 2024 - © Filip Dujardin.

At Bruges Triennial 2024, international artists and architects created site-specific installations throughout the UNESCO city’s canals, gardens, and cobbled alleys.

Chicago Biennial 2017 showcases architecture-driven performing art projects

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Jeanne Gang and Nick Cave, Here Hear, 2017, Courtesy of Navy Pier, © James Richards IV.

A dancing quartet in air-filtering costumes and a choreography exploring the body’s relationship to buildings and spaces in a Mies van der Rohe’s masterpiece. At Chicago 2017 architecture-driven performing arts projects bring to life iconic masterpieces with music, theatre and dance.