Deane Simpson, Associate Professor at the Institute for Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape, represents KADK at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Taking place between October 3, 2015, and January 3, 2016, the Biennial is the largest international survey of contemporary architecture taking place in North America – with the opening weekend of the exhibition drawing an estimated 31,000 visitors.
According to the Biennial’s artistic directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda, the event provides a global platform for “groundbreaking architectural projects and spatial experiments that demonstrate how creativity and innovation can radically transform our lived experience. Through a constellation of exhibitions, full-scale installations, and a program of events, the Biennial will invite the public to engage with and think about architecture in new and unexpected ways, and to take part in a global discussion on the future of the field.”
Architects of the new generation
In total, over one hundred architects and artists—representing more than thirty countries—were selected. The majority of those chosen established their practices after 2000, reflecting the Biennial’s aim to support and disseminate the work and ideas of a new generation of designers.
Exhibitors include: Decolonizing Architecture, Lateral Office, Rural Urban Framework, RAAAF, Plan:B, New-Territories, Lacaton & Vassal, Fake Industries, Atelier Bow-Wow, BIG, Gramazio Kohler, LIST, Junya Ishigami, Stefano Boeri, Work AC, Studio Gang, Tatiana Bilbao.
'Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society’
Deane Simpson exhibits a series of drawings from the project 'Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society', which was recently published with Lars Müller Publishers. The book examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations of our time: aging populations.
