{"id":3632,"date":"2025-08-19T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:19:04","slug":"i-believe-in-making-things-public-says-chicago-architecture-biennial-curator-florencia-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/i-believe-in-making-things-public-says-chicago-architecture-biennial-curator-florencia-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"“I believe in making things public” says Chicago Architecture Biennial curator Florencia Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The free and public nature of the Chicago Architecture Biennial<\/a>\u00a0sets it apart from other global architecture events, says Argentinian architect and educator Florencia Rodriguez in this exclusive interview<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rodriguez, who directed University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture from 2022 to 2025, said that the free and public nature of the American biennial aligns with her own practice and provides a platform for thinking through some of the field’s biggest challenges.<\/p>\n

“I believe in making things public, and that’s why I curate, I edit, I publish and and I collaborate \u2013 because that’s when collective thinking happens,” she told Dezeen in light of the upcoming 10-year edition of the biennial next month.<\/p>\n

“Chicago is a city that is used to architecture, and the history of 20th-century architecture is very clearly present in the streets.”<\/p>\n

“This is a biennial that is completely open to the public. It’s free.”<\/p>\n

Through panel discussions, exhibitions, performances and gatherings, Rodriguez hopes that the fifth edition of the biennial will satisfy the “depth of meaning” sought by practitioners while still being accessible.<\/p>\n

Scope of global changes too large for one focus<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Rodriguez, the free and public nature of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB<\/a>) sets it apart from other international events such as the Venice Architecture Bienniale<\/a>, which requires tickets.<\/p>\n

She said that CAB’s content will also take a different approach to Venice, departing from the technologically focused programme put on by 2025 biennale curator Carlo Ratti, and instead leaning into an array of events “more immersed in the cultural fabric of different situations”.<\/p>\n

Featuring more than 100 projects from 30 different countries, CAB 2025 has been organised under the theme Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change.<\/p>\n

It features collaborators from all over the country and world, including American architecture studios such as SO-IL<\/a> and LOHA<\/a>\u00a0and international studios such as Oshinowo Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez picked a broad theme in response to the wide-ranging problems facing the architecture industry as it responds to social, political and environmental changes.<\/p>\n

“I think that the scale, or the scope, of the changes we are confronting in the last decades is so large that I did not want to engage with just one line of thinking,” she said.<\/p>\n