report by Czech TV   Commissioned by University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), the United States Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2021) brought unprecedented attention to wood-framed construction in American architecture, which had been largely overlooked by historical and contemporary discourse. This spring, UIC Faculty and Co-Curators Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner continue to explore the ubiquity and aesthetic power of this architectural element in three new iterations ...

The current coronavirus pandemic may cause us to ponder the nature of the past and future role of architecture at the end of the period of fluid modernity. It would appear that the modus operandi of the contemporary world – in which any and all moral norms are set aside in the pursuit of globalised commerce; in which single-use consumption is still abound; in which wealth grows insatiably, and yet the gap between rich and poor continues to widen; and in which all these central tenets of a “post-capitalist” society still prevail at the ...

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