What constitutes the social context of architecture? What kind of
stories can be told about how lived experiences across global
communities, cities, territories, and ecologies resonate with
architectural and space-making practices? The 2019 Chicago Architecture
Biennial explores the implications of architecture and the built
environment as they relate to land, memory, rights, and civic
participation--drawing buildings, planning, art, policy making,
education, and activism into new conversations at global and civic
scales.
Published in conjunction with the third iteration of the Chicago
Architecture Biennial, ...and other such stories extends the
exhibition's core questions through a range of essays, interviews, and
visual dossiers, along with a section introducing the Biennial's
contributors. It is structured by a series of curatorial frames: (1) No
Land Beyond reflects on landscapes of belonging and sovereignty that
challenge narrow definitions of land as property and commodity; (2)
Appearances and Erasures explores both shared and contested memories in
consideration of monuments, memorials, and social histories; (3) Rights
and Reclamations foregrounds aspects of rights, advocacy, and civic
purpose in architectural and spatial practices; and (4) Common Ground
addresses practices invested in producing and intervening in public
space within and beyond the field of architecture.
