Here are the designers who will exhibit at the 2020 Venice Biennale

The list of participants for the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice have been announced by Paolo Baratta, President of La Biennale di Venezia, and Hashim Sarkis, curator of the Biennale. 

In total, the event will bring together 114 designers and architecture firms whose work will be laid out across a collection of themed blocks focusing on topics that grow from those encompassing the technological and political realities of the human body to ones that include the United Nations and global ecological regions and systems.  

Describing the goal of the biennale, Sarkis explains in a statement, "We need a new spatial contract. In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, we call on architects to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together." 

Chicago architects Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner were selected in 2019 as the curators for the United States Pavilion at the Biennale. The pair's exhibition, American Framing, is set to explore "the...