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Chicago Architecture Biennial
Chicago Architecture Biennial
The City and The World
• Exhibition: September 21-October 13, 2015
• Symposium: September 24-27, 2015
 
The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design present a challenging program on the future of the City and The World.

The Exhibitions and programs present the challenges of contemporary architecture in building, urban planning, and design in general in this New World Era of a Renewed Environmental and Economic Order and with a new parallel Vision for the Design of World Cities.


EXHIBITION I
 
NEW INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
 The International Architecture Awards 2012-2015

In 2014, 110 cutting-edge new works of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture from over 48 nations were selected and awarded for their design excellence by a distingushed jury of New York architects and educators. For over a decade, The Interantional Architecture Awards, organized by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, remain the world's oldest and most comprehesive public program that promotes the best new design as a truly global phenonmenon. The International Architecture Awards reflect the changing state of global architecture and reveal emerging new design directions by today’s most visionary practitioners. 
 
For 2015, this retrospective exhibition (2012-2015) features the latest, newest designs for skyscrapers, corporate offices, commercial high-rise towers, apartments, mid-rise housing, churches and chapels, museums, cultural institutions, libraries, colleges and schools, restaurants, exposition buildings, hotels and resorts, auditoriums, affordable housing, religious structures, private residences, outdoor markets, art galleries, sports facilities, banks, hospitals and health clinics, auditoriums, transportation centers, restorations and renovations, embassies, interiors, bridges, plazas and boulevards, city planning, and landscape architecture. 
 
The world's foremost design firms covering six continents include: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, AECDP Christian de Portzamparc, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Brook McIlroy and Ryan Gorrie, BVN Donovan Hill, Cannon Design, CHANG Architects, CHRIST.CHRIST. associated architects, Christian Pottgiesser- architecturespossibles, Doyle Herman Design Associates, DS Architecture, Duggan Morris Architects, Elliott + Associates Architects, Feste Grenland Landscape, fjmt (Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Pty Ltd.), GAD Architecture, Gantt Huberman Architects, GLUCK+, gpy arquitectos, GRAFT Architects, Grant Associates, HASSELL, HM White Site Architects, Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects, Juha Sundqvist, K2S Architects, KieranTimberlake, KINO architects , KPMB Architects, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects, Louise Braverman, Architect, Macrae-Gibson Architects, magma architecture, Maurer United Architects [MUA], MPA Architects, Mehrdad Yazdani with Canon Design,MMIT Arquitectos, MZ Architects, Naoki Nomura (Takenaka Corporation), Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architectes Urbanistes, ODOS Architects, Oppenheim Architecture + Design, LLP., Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP., Piet Louw and Dave Dewar, Peter W. Schmidt Architekt BDA., PLP Architecture, realgrün Landschaftsarchitekten,Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Rocco Design Architects, Seán Harrington Architects, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP., Stephen Marshall Architects LLP., Surbana International Consultants,TAG Architects,Takashi Yonezawa (HAP+),UnitedLAB, Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Weiss/Manfredi, Wilkinson Eyre Architects,Yinlian Dachi (Beijing) International Engineering.


EXHIBITION II
 
NEW AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
The American Architecture Awards 2011-2014
 
Over 300 cutting-edge new works of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture selected for their design excellence. For almost over a decade and a half, The American Architecture Awards, organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies remain the United States' most celebrated and innovative public program that promotes the best new design in the United States. The American Architecture Awards reflect the changing state of global architecture and reveal emerging new design directions by today’s foremost practitioners. 
 
Featured works include new new skyscrapers, corporate offices and headquarters, commercial high-rise towers, apartments, mid-rise housing, museums, cultural institutions, performing arts centers, libraries, colleges and schools, auditoriums, affordable housing, religious structures, private residences, memorials, art galleries, sports facilities, court houses, hospitals, aboretums, transportation centers, visitor centers, restorations and renovations, interiors, bridges, plazas and boulevards, city planning, parks, and landscape architecture including new projects in Angola, Austria, Burundi, China, Great Britain, Finland, Ireland, India, and South Korea. 
 
Participating American and international firms include: 4240 Architecture, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Ai Weiwei, Aidlin Darling Design, amphibianARC, Atelier Ten, Balmori Associates, Belzberg Architects, BNIM, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Cannon Design, CO Architects, Corgan Associates, Inc., Daly Genik, David Jameson Architect Inc., CCI Architecture, Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons, Cooper Joseph Studio, Desai Chia Architecture, el dorado inc., Elliott + Associates Architects, Ennead Architects LLP., Eric Owen Moss Architects, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, GLUCK+, Good Fulton & Farrell, Hargreaves Associates, HGA Architects and Engineers, HHF Architects, HM White Site Architects, Howeler and Yoon Architecture, Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects PC., James Doyle & Associates, Joeb Moore + Partners Architects LLC., Joel Sanders Architects, John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, Johnson & Lee Architects, LMN Architects, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects, Louise Braverman, Architect, Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, Marlon Blackwell Architect, Marc Peter Keane, Martha Schwartz Partners, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, MIG, Morphosis Architects, NADAAA, ODOS Architects, Olson Kundig Architects, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners LLP., Perkins & Will, Platform for Architecture + Research, Quimby McCoy Preservation Architecture LLP., RA-DA, Rafael Viñoly Architects PC., Schwartz/Silver Architects, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP., Stantec Inc., Stephen Luoni, Susanne Zotti Architekten, SWA, UnitedLAB, University of Arkansas Community Design Center, VOA Associates Incorporated, Voorsanger Architects PC., Weiss/Manfredi, Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture, XTEN Architecture, Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design.
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