Miller Hull

Organizers of the U.S. Pavilion have announced the 52 finalists who will participate in the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Each project responds to the brief co-commissioners Peter MacKeith, Susan Chin, and Rod Bigelow shared which asked for works that center the American porch, in all of its cultural, political, and social dimensions.

The jurors were Austen Barron Bailly, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary; Julie Bargmann, D.I.R.T. studio; Marlon Blackwell, Marlon Blackwell Architects; Stephen Burks, Stephen Burks Man Made; Josephine Minutillo, Architectural Record; Justin Garrett Moore, Mellon Foundation; and Jack Murphy, The Architect’s Newspaper.

“I was most impressed by the range and diversity of the different interpretations of PORCH and its role as a public place of gathering, community, and civic purpose,” Blackwell shared in a statement. “The submissions ranged in scale from two people to 200 people and everything in between. As a jury, we sought to reflect this range in the quality and different scales of work through the selections we made from around the country.”

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