After a selection process involving over 250 submissions, the curatorial team for the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale has selected 12 teams of architects to produce the US exhibition: The Architectural Imagination. The Architectural Imagination will speculate possible architecture projects for four sites in Detroit with an eye for application internationally.
This fall, the teams will travel to Detroit for site visits and community meetings, as well as to meet with faculty and students at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Curators Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon hope to have selected a team that produces creative and resourceful work to address the social and environmental issues of the 21st century.
See all of the selected teams after the break.
A(n) Office/Detroit, Michigan: Marcelo López-Dinardi; V. Mitch McEwen
BairBalliet/Columbus, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois: Kelly Bair; Kristy Balliet
Greg Lynn FORM/Los Angeles, California: Greg Lynn
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects/Atlanta, Georgia: Mack Scogin; Merrill Elam
MARSHALL BROWN PROJECTS/Chicago, Illinois: Marshall Brown
MOS Architects/New York, New York: Hilary Sample; Michael Meredith
Pita & Bloom/Los Angeles, California: Florencia Pita; Jackilin Hah Bloom
Present Future/Houston, Texas: Albert Pope; Jesús Vassallo
Preston Scott Cohen Inc./Boston, Massachusetts: Preston Scott Cohen
SAA/Stan Allen Architect/New York, New York: Stan Allen
T+E+A+M/Ann Arbor, Michigan: Thom Moran; Ellie Abrons; Adam Fure; Meredith Miller
Zago Architecture/Los Angeles, California: Andrew Zago; Laura Bouwman
Learn more about The Architectural Imagination here.
