Curators Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon, AIA, selected 12 U.S. architecture firms from more than 250 submissions to produce “The Architectural Imagination,” the U.S. pavilion exhibition for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.
The exhibition will consist of architectural projects commissioned for four specific sites in Detroit that address the major social and environmental issues we face today. Three firms will each collaborate on one project. This fall, the teams will conduct site visits and attend community meetings in Detroit, and consult with faculty and students at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. They will also design and fabricate the projects until through Jan. 2016. The projects will then make their way to Venice for the Biennale, which runs from May 28 to Nov. 27, 2016.
The full list of participants is:
A(n) Office, Detroit
Marcelo López-Dinardi; V. Mitch McEwen
BairBalliet, Columbus,
Ohio; Chicago
Kelly Bair; Kristy Balliet
Greg Lynn FORM, Los
Angeles
Greg Lynn
Mack Scogin Merrill
Elam Architects, Atlanta
Mack Scogin, AIA; Merrill Elam, AIA
Marshall Brown Projects, Chicago
Marshall Brown
MOS Architects, New
York
Hilary Sample, AIA; Michael Meredith, AIA
Pita & Bloom, Los
Angeles
Florencia Pita; Jackilin Hah Bloom
Present Future,
Houston
Albert Pope; Jesús Vassallo
Preston Scott Cohen
Inc., Cambridge, Mass.
Preston Scott Cohen
SAA/Stan Allen
Architect, New York
Stan Allen, FAIA
T+E+A+M, Ann Arbor,
Mich.
Thom Moran; Ellie Abrons; Adam Fure; Meredith Miller
Zago Architecture, Los
Angeles
Andrew Zago, AIA; Laura Bouwman, AIA
Note: This story has been updated to correct the location of Preston Scott Cohen Inc. It is located in Cambridge, Mass., and not Boston as originally stated. We regret the error.
