Professional Practice
Open Call for Participation for PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity at the 19th International Biennale Architettura
Date: 12/3/2024 - 1/17/2025
Type: Call for Papers / Submissions
Location(s): International
Description:
The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, together with DesignConnects and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, co-commissioners of the 2025 United States Pavilion for the 19th International Biennale Architettura, are launching an Open Call for Participation for PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, an exhibition representing contemporary American architecture and design with an emphasis on civic engagement, community building, and social and environmental resiliency.
The PORCH exhibition and program are informed by the 2025 Biennale Architettura’s title, “Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective” focusing on the built environment and architecture’s contribution to the global climate crisis and the presentation of intelligent solutions toward adaptation and redemption. Building on the concept of the porch typology – a threshold between boundaries, an intermediary space, a gathering place, a tectonic and performative space – a contemporary manifestation of the porch will be constructed at the Pavilion and a selection of projects and practices centered on the ethos of the porch will be displayed within the building. An interdisciplinary design team of Marlon Blackwell Architects, Stephen Burks ManMade, and Julie Bargmann of D.I.R.T. Studio with TEN × TEN are designing a welcoming new constructed PORCH around and through the US Pavilion.
Landscape architects, architects, designers and artists, design firms, practices, nonprofits, public agencies and individuals nationwide are invited to submit design proposals that express and interpret the ethos of PORCH and its principles within the building. The Pavilion’s interior exhibition will allow for at least 50 participant displays, as specified in the Open Call project brief. Proposals for participation are encouraged from all citizens, states, and territories of the United States, and from design practices of any size from all disciplines.
Please note that a separate call for participation from US students and schools of architecture and design (unbuilt and speculative projects) will be issued in mid-January.