Participants withdraw from Chicago Architecture Biennial over sponsor’s investment in weapons manufacturer

Chicago Architecture Biennial Loses Participants Over Sponsor’s Ties

A cadre of participants have withdrawn from the Sixth Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) citing a sponsor’s connection to a munitions maker whose weapons have been used in Israel’s occupation of Gaza. The Architect’s Newspaper reports that the group sent an open letter to the biennial’s organizers a day ahead of the event’s September 18 opening […]

Chicago Architecture Biennial participants withdraw over sponsor links

Grant Park, Chicago, 2012. Photo: Diego Delso, via Wikimedia Commons. A coalition of participants from the sixth Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) have written to event organisers to voice discontent over a funding source, The Architect’s Newspaper reports. This year’s edition, titled Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, opened on 19 September. A day prior, a letter was sent to the executive team, citing discontent over CAB’s suppor…

Participants withdraw from Chicago Architecture Biennial over sponsor’s investment in weapons manufacturer

In a letter to the biennial’s organisers, more than 20 participants wrote that Crown Family Philanthropies’ “sponsorship is incompatible with the values of our work”