exhibit _ BREAKTHROUGH: HOUSING FUTURES AT NPHM
BREAKTHROUGH: Housing Futures, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, November 19, 2025 – April 19, 2026.
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exhibit _ REVIEW OF INHABIT/OUTHABIT
Review of Chicago Biennial and Inhabit/Outhabit, Zach Mortice for Bloomberg News, October 4, 2025: “its largest and most cohesive sub-exhibit, ‘Inhabit, Outhabit,’ a sizable show-within-a-show that could fill the Cultural Center on its own.”
exhibit _ INHABIT/OUTHABIT AT THE CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL
Inhabit/Outhabit at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, co-curated with Magdalena Tagliabue, Camilo Restrepo Ochoa, Igo Kommers Wender, and CAB Artistic Director Florencia Rodriguez, September 19, 2025 – February 28, 2026.
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teaching/exhibit _ REVIEW OF 1:1 UNIT MOCKUP
UIC Today features Collective Housing Studio and Exhibit, “Architecture Students Explore Big and Small Ideas for Housing,” July 29, 2024.
design _ LAKE SHORE HUT FEATURE
Lake Shore Hut featured in Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, eds. K.Michael Hays and Andrew Holder (2022), 160.
exhibit _ CITY OF URBAN INVENTIONS
Drawing exhibited at Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism: Collective City, Seoul, Korea, September 7 – November 10, 2019.
…design _ PROJECT EXHIBITED AT HARVARD
Studio Offshore/Alexander Eisenschmidt, Lakeshore Hut Project, part of “Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech” exhibition at Druker Design Gallery, Harvard Graduate School of Design, January 23 – March 11, 2018. Curated by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder.
…exhibit _ Félix Candela’s Concrete Shells: An Engineered Architecture for Mexico and Chicago
Curating and exhibition design of Félix Candela’s Concrete Shells: An Engineered Architecture for Mexico and Chicago, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, January 19 – March 3, 2018 (with research and models originated by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes).
…exhibit _ LETTER TO LISBON
“Dear Mayor Fernando Medina,” at the Letters to the Mayor exhibition, Galeria dos Paços do Concelho, Lisbon, Portugal, October 10 – November 30, 2016 (org. Storefront for Art and Architecture and Lisbon Triennial of Architecture).
…exhibit _ 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Citation of “Search for an Architectural Urbanism,” in The Form of Form (Zurich: Lars Müller and Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, 2016), 118-119 and “Urbano Fantástico,” in O Mundo nos Nossos Olhos – The World in Our Eyes (Lisbon: Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, 2016), 8-9.
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exhibit _ “IN SEARCH FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL URBANISM” AT LISBON ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE
In Search for an Architectural Urbanism, exhibited at The World in Our Eyes, part of the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, Portugal, October 6, 2016 – January 15, 2017.
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exhibit _ Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Catalog
“Collective City,” in Re-Living the City: UABB 2015 Catalogue (Barcelona: Actar, 2016), 130-135.
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exhibit _ “COLLECTIVE CITY” AT THE BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM\ARCHITECTURE
Collective City exhibition at the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen, China, December 4, 2015 – March 1, 2016.
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exhibits _ PHANTOM CHICAGO @ ARCHRECORD
Architectural Record publishes Phantom Chicago Panorama in the article “High Time: Chicago Skyscrapers,” October 2015.
exhibit _ CHICAGOISMS
Reviews of Chicagoisms exhibit in Domus, Architectural Record, DesignBoom, Architect, Dwell, Huffington Post, Canadian Architect, …. (full list)
talk, exhibit _ CHICAGOISMS GALLERY TALK
Gallery Talk on “Chicagoisms” at the Art Institute of Chicago, April 24, 2014, 6pm.
exhibit _ CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Chicagoisms” exhibit featured on TV at WTTW and headlined Chicago Tribune Arts Section: “Small Gallery Stuffed with Big Architectural Ideas” by Blair Kamin.
exhibit _ “CHICAGOISMS” AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Chicagoisms exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Kurokawa Gallery, April 24, 2014 – January 4, 2015. Co-organized and curated with Jonathan Mekinda; exhibition design by Studio Offshore (Eisenschmidt) in collaboration with graphic designer Matthew Wizinsky.
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exhibit _ COMPOSITION OF AN “IDEAL CITY”
Over the duration of the exhibition City Works, the models traveled throughout the gallery, visiting different parts of the panorama’s visionary history, and, finally, came together to create a new collective project of the city – one that is intended as Provocation for Chicago’s Urban Future.
…talk _ Gallery Talk at Expo 72
Gallery Talk, at the occasion of the exhibition City Works: Provocations for Chicago’s Urban Future at the Expo 72 Gallery, September 18, 2013, 5:30pm.
exhibit _ “CITY WORKS: PROVOCATIONS FOR CHICAGO’S URBAN FUTURE” AT CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
City Works: Provocation for Chicago’s Urban Future exhibition at the City of Chicago’s Cultural Center – Expo 72 Gallery (72 E. Randolph Street, Chicago), May 24 – September 29, 2013.
…exhibit _ VISIONARY CHICAGO PANORAMA
Panorama of a Visionary Chicago, produced first for the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2012) and redesigned and expanded for a display at the city of Chicago’s Cultural Center Expo 72 Gallery, measuring 160′ in length.
…exhibit _ Press on Phantom City Panorama & App
The Atlantic reviewed the Phantom Panorama Exhibition & App.
research/exhibit _ VISIONARY CITY iPHONE APP
The Visionary Cities Project developed an iPhone app in collaboration with Cheng+Snyder (www.chengsnyder.com).
…exhibit _ VISIONARY CHICAGO: A GUIDE TO URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL DREAMS
Video installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, September 10 – 23, 2012.
exhibit _ “CITY WORKS” AT THE 13th VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
Designer and curator of City Works exhibition at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, August 27 – November 25, 2012.
Invited by David Chipperfield, director of the 13th Venice Biennale, Eisenschmidt designed and curated an exhibition that re-envisions a series of Chicago’s urban environments. The installation is a collaborative effort of 5 teams that involves a large model of a visionary Chicago (12’x12′, produced by David Brown, Studio Gang, Stanley Tigerman, and UrbanLab) as well as an encompassing drawing (100’ long) that creates a visual backdrop. The outside of the screen (produced by the Visionary Cities Project/Alexander Eisenschmidt) is a panorama of a Phantom Chicago, entirely composed of unbuilt visionary proposals for the city.
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exhibit _ “VISIONARY CHICAGO II” AT CAF
Visionary City: Chicago’s Urban and Architectural Dreams exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, June 21, 2012 – May, 2013.
exhibit _ VC CATALOG ON DISPLAY AT THE MCA CHICAGO
VC: Catalog of Visionary Architectures for Chicago was part of the official reference display at the Museum of Contemporary Art for the exhibition Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, June 30 – Sep 23, 2012.
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research/teaching _ REVIEW ON SEMINAR
Architect’s Newspaper and Chicago Plus review exhibition of Visionary Chicago and calling it “stimulating and provocative;” mounted at UIC’s Ramp Gallery, May – September, 2011.
…exhibit _ “VISIONARY CHICAGO I” AT UIC
Developed as part of the theory course “Architectural Visions of the City,” the exhibition recorded, compared, analyzed, and extrapolated Chicago’s architectural dreams and nightmares (UIC Architecture Ramp Gallery, April 28 – Sep 2, 2011).
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