The fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial opening on September 21, 2023 features a strong representation of Columbia GSAPP affiliates. The School’s faculty and alumni are participating through installations and programs that will be announced in the coming weeks. Directed by Chicago-based collective Floating Museum, the Biennial exhibition, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, will feature more than 100 activations and programs by multidisciplinary creatives from 30 cities across the globe through January 2, 2024.

“Floating Museum considers the city as a framework for rehearsal, where the horizontal field of activity becomes a convivial palace for innovation, memory, and change,” shared the collective in a joint statement. “In this view, individuals, community organizations, institutions, and municipal authorities are invited to participate as equals––which opens new possibilities for collaboration across disciplines, geographies, and histories. We are excited to have the opportunity to think together with an expanded network of artists, architects, designers, poets, filmmakers, anthropologists, historians, institutions, and civic leaders.”

GSAPP faculty and alumni participation includes:

• a collaboration between The Buell Center and AD—WO (Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ’12 MSAAD ’13 AAR and Jen Wood ’12 MSAAD)
• Anupama Kundoo Atelier GmbH (Faculty Anupama Kundoo)
• LOT-EK (Faculty Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano)
• The Living (Associate Professor David Benjamin ’05 M.Arch)
• Black Reconstruction Collective (Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ’12 MSAAD ’13 AAR, Associate Professor Mario Gooden ’90 MArch, J. Yolande Daniels ’90 MArch, and V. Mitch McEwen ’06 MArch)
• interim studio (Nora Akawi ’11 MSCCCP)
• Storefront for Art and Architecture (José Esparza Chong Cuy ’12 CCCP)

More information about the projects and programs will be included on this website as they are announced.