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.
This exhibition gathers twenty-nine collective housing projects from across the world, mostly realized within the past decade, each reimagining how we live together and proposing alternatives to conventional models. These projects productively question the very idea of housing today—some by rethinking managerial and ownership systems, others by challenging typological norms, expanding the meaning of family, emphasizing collective spaces, fostering cooperativism, committing to sustainability, or experimenting with new materials. At a time when the global housing emergency disproportionately affects the most vulnerable, this research has looked both backward and forward to assemble an atlas of projects that actively resist stereotypes and the entrenched systems of inequality surrounding housing. The projects featured here function as dispatches: instructive examples for others and contributions to a collective effort to radically rethink housing with urgency. Together, they signal a shift away from capital-driven paradigms toward a collectivism that intersects productively with the world.
The display features projects by the following architects and offices:
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APPARATA
b+ (bplus.xyz)
Balparda Brunel Oficina de Arquitectura
BETA office for architecture and the city
Breathe Architecture
Bureau SLA and ZakenMaker
Centro Cooperativista Uruguayo
Skarn Chaiyawat, Rina Shindo, and Witee Wisuthumporn
Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA
Mariano Clusellas in partnership with Guillermo Cabrera, Alberto Campolonghi, Sebastián Colle, Cristian O’Connor, Jorge Pieretti
José Cubilla
E2A / Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert Architekten
FAR frohn&rojas
French 2D
Hardel Le Bihan Architectes
HHF Architects
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA)
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekt*innen
Michael Maltzan Architecture
MASS Design Group
Max Nuñez Arquitectos
Plan Común
PRODUCTORA
Sam Chermayeff Office
SO–IL
TEN
URBANUS (Liu Xiaodu, Meng Yan)
Urko Sánchez Architects
