CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

Curated by the interdisciplinary arts collective the Floating Museum, the fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, kicks off on September 21, followed by the grand opening on November 1. Featuring the work of more than 80 local and global contributors at locations ranging from outdoor community sites to major exhibitions at cultural organizations throughout Chicago—including the Chicago Cultural Center and the Graham Foundation—CAB 5 explores architecture as a time-based, iterative practice. Together with more than 100 cultural partners, CAB 5 presents installations and programming across Chicago. From artists, architects, engineers, performers, poets, and others, the practitioners represented in CAB 5 collectively set the stage for the cross-pollination of ideas that welcome alternative ways of making architecture and engage everyone to rethink, rework, and reimagine the present and future of cities.

CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal contributors include:
A Long Walk Home (Chicago); Amanda Williams (Chicago); Amy Kulper + PROPS SUPPLY (London); Andrea Carlson (Chicago); Anupama Kundoo Atelier GmbH (Berlin); Asim Waqif (New Delhi); Baerbel Mueller (Austria and Ghana); Barkow Leibinger (Berlin); Black Reconstruction Collective (USA); Botanical City (New York and Chicago); The Buell Center and AD—WO, Columbia University (New York); Camille Henrot (New York); Candice Lin (Los Angeles); Carme Pinós (Barcelona); Carol Ross Barney with Ryan Gann and DuSable Park Design Alliance (Chicago); Cecil McDonald (Chicago); ChartierDalix (Paris); Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project (Chicago); Chris Bradley (Chicago); Chris T Cornelius of studio:indigenous (Albuquerque); Could Be Design (Chicago); Dan Peterman (Chicago); David Benjamin / The Living and GSAPP Footprint Project (New York); Deb Sokolow (Chicago); Depave Chicago + The Montessori School of Englewood (Chicago); Diana Al-Hadid (Brooklyn); Diane Simpson (Chicago); Dream the Combine (Ithaca, New York and Minneapolis, Minnesota); Edra Soto (Chicago); Eve L. Ewing (Chicago); Feda Wardak (Paris); Gamaliel Rodriguez (Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico); Gelitin (Vienna); Grow Greater Englewood (Chicago); Helmo (Paris); The High Line (New York); House of Kapwa (Chicago); Ibrahim Mahama (Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale, Ghana); IE University / Romina Canna (Segovia and Madrid, Spain); Institute for Computational Design and Construction, Prof. Achim Menges / Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design, Prof. Jan Knippers / ITECH & IntCDC Cluster of Excellence, University of Stuttgart, Germany (Stuttgart); interim studio (Nora Akawi and Eduardo Rega Calvo) (New York); Jan Tichy (Chicago); Jean-Marie Appriou (Paris); Jeff Carter (Chicago); Jennifer Reeder and Adri Sitiwat (Chicago); Jody Graf (New York); Joel Putnam (Chicago); Kane One / Graffiti Institute (Chicago); Keller Easterling (New York); Kiel Moe (Halifax, Vermont); Lanza (Mexico City); Larissa Fassler (Berlin); Leticia Pardo (Chicago); Limbo Accra (Accra); Lot—Ek (New York); Modou Dieng Yacine (Chicago); Norman Teague Design Studios / Tonika Johnson / Max Davis / Ernest Wong / Mejay Gula / Tanner Woodford (Chicago); Oren Pinhassi (New York); Paa Joe (Accra); Para Project (Amenia, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts); Paul Ramírez Jonas (Ithaca, New York); Perry Kulper (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Philippe Rahm (Paris); Practice Landscape (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Project Onward with Ricky Willis and Kareem Davis (Chicago); Red Clay Dance Company (Chicago); Roy Kinsey (Chicago); Ruth de Jong (Livingston, Montana); saay|yaas (Praia, Cape Verde); Samuel Levi Jones, LAA Office, and Sam Van Aken (Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; and Syracuse, New York); site / site design group, ltd. (Chicago); SKETCH (Panama City); Slo ‘Mo (Chicago); South Side Community Art Center (Chicago); SpaceShift Collective (Chicago); Steel Studio (Gary, Indiana); Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York); Stoss Landscape Urbanism (Boston and Los Angeles); studio chahar in collaboration with The Apprenticeshop (Boston and Tehran); Terra Alta (Accra); The Buell Center and AD—WO, Columbia University (New York); Urban Growers Collective (Erika Allen) (Chicago); Theatre for One (New York); Tiny Desk (Washington, DC); Tschabalala Self (New Haven, Connecticut); Ugo Rondinone (New York); Vyjayanthi V. Rao and Kush Badhwar with Sagarika Sundaram (New York); and WOJR (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Floating Museum—Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Faheem Majeed, Andrew Schachman, and avery r. young—is an art collective that creates new models: exploring relationships between art, community, architecture, and public institutions. Using site-responsive art, design, and programming they explore the potential in these relationships, considering the infrastructure, history, and aesthetics of a space.

The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is a non-profit organization dedicated to convening the world to explore innovative ideas and bring people together to collectively imagine and shape the future of design.

To learn more visit chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org.