The Chicago Architecture Biennial began in 2015, in no small part as a means for the city to remind the world how much this metropolis is shaped by good design — and how urban design in other cities across the globe is shaped by what happens here.
“Architecture defines a city,” then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in announcing the event designed to draw visitors from across the planet. “And no city has been defined by its architecture, or has influenced global architectural design like Chicago.”
