The Chicago Architecture Biennial is thrilled to celebrate its tenth anniversary, alongside the announcement of CAB 6: Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, the next iteration of the Biennial to be held in 2025, led by Florencia Rodriguez, a writer, editor and Director at the University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Architecture, who will be the Biennial’s first Latina Artistic Director.

In the past decade, CAB has sustained an international forum on architecture and urbanism centered in Chicago and has continued to produce the largest exhibition of contemporary architecture in North America every two years. CAB exhibitions and public programs have engaged over 2.2 million visitors with innovative ideas in design through over 400 original projects created by architects, artists and designers from nearly 50 countries. As one of the most public and accessible architecture events in the world, CAB has created a powerful platform for ideas and now embarks on a new decade of growth and ambitious programs.

CAB 6 will enlist Florencia Rodriguez, Director of and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Architecture (UIC/SoArch), as Artistic Director to lead this pivotal edition of the Biennial. Titled Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, CAB 6 will form an expansive and multi-faceted exploration of the field of architecture and the built environment globally, with a special focus on the cultural forces that impact design, such as the need to rethink collective housing, material culture, ecologies and the impact that migration has on our cities. New and commissioned projects will address the most pressing issues of our time and in doing so chart a new agenda for contemporary design.

The sixth edition of CAB, which is free and open to the public, will open its central exhibition in the Chicago Cultural Center on September 12, 2025 and run through February 28, 2026. The historic Chicago Cultural Center, the headquarters of the City of Chicago Department of Culture and Special Events (DCASE), located in the heart of downtown Chicago within the Millennium Park Campus, serves as the Biennial’s hub and the site of the main exhibition. Through partnerships across the City of Chicago and around the world, a network of organizations will create a constellation of projects, expanding the conversation and exploration of ideas around the most salient issues facing the field of architecture today.