Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner will curate U.S. Pavilion for 2020 Venice Biennale


The United States Department of State has selected a team from the University of Illinois at Chicago to curate the United States Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale

The team, led by architects Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner, will create an installation in the pavilion titled American Framing that investigates "the conditions and consequences of American wood-framed construction," according to a press release. 

The American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be programmed with an exhibition investigating American wood-framed construction. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user Jaksmata.

As construction types that can be found all over the world, from the ranch houses of suburban enclaves to more recent aluminum-framed commercial architectures that evolve the approach, balloon and Type-V wood framing construction methodologies—known as "Chicago Construction" during the 19th Century—are among the leading construction innovations that American building culture has propagat...

Antonio Pacheco via Archinect - News http://bit.ly/2setNNb

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