The Biennial : Chicago Architecture

Biennial may sound like something alienistic but, it is rather a parachuting and another expression of the exposure to contemporary culture of Chicago. It is an international exhibition, which cites to be first Chicago Architecture Biennial. And so, comes the covered and yet to be outspoken statements about possibilities of a productive relationship between architecture and the city.

Competition comes with the line when there is challenge to developers or politicians, i.e. whether the brutal landscape of contemporary American city might offer opportunities to implement as a force for better cities. Moving on, the blend in which Architect’s are involved. The cultural and disciplinary content with public facing awareness yields the forgery to continue the same with chicago’s famous pragmatism, but can Architect’s marry their undoubted and vivid imagination …

Biennial is noted as a generational shift. Different generation, instigation, curating, arguing and proposing interests and urgencies. The unfurled establishment of a platform though the biennial has initiated relationships and dialogues to be spotted on.

Chicago Architecture Biennial, is an avalanche of pointless events by doing things on its own. Its the age of inalfication , every city with every form of creative practice at vast expense and greater effort mounts gigantic productions. These events marshall entire disciplines, commands acres of physical space and even more media space. Somewhere between trade fair and culture, tourism, city branding and professional interest, public outreach and academic study, such events wield a vast array of interests under a single umbrella. Grand spaces of Chicago's cultural centre malaise the view and makes you wander. As per the very nature, they are uncuratable compared to traditional gallery shows. Chicago's Biennial, a thing that should be understood more as platform than proposition. Some architects find the idea of discipline as a discursive diaspora an anathema to their more traditional declamatory and adversarial modes.

According to the European sensibility, seems to be nowhere. A huge lake on one side and miles of flat farmland on other This city has extensive quintessentially urban experience. There are two problems in architecture, First one is to find what architecture is and the other one is to find out how to make architecture. Chicago has history but it is also blessed with vibrant architecture culture. Chicago is also considered to be a living laboratory of future infrastructure. In chicago, prospects of young architects are tough.
Henceforth, the Biennial has resulted in a good platform for the immediate and responsive architecture of the city to be fruitful when it comes to figure out the true meaning of contemporary architecture with the city's tradition and ethnicity.