The jurors who will evaluate submissions from architects interested in exhibiting their work in the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia have been announced. The news comes with less than a week before submissions are due on January 17 at 12:00 p.m. ET. Members of the jury will be Austen Barron Bailly of 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, Humanities in Place at Mellon; and Jack Murphy, AN executive editor.PORCH: An Architecture of Generositywill be commissioned and curated by Peter MacKeith, dean of the Fay Jones School at University of Arkansas; Susan Chin, founder of DesignConnects; and Rod Bigelow of Crystal Bridges Museum. The exhibitor contributions to the U.S. Pavilion, achieved through the Open Call, lie at the heart of the collectivePORCH project, MacKeith said.Framed by the constructions and installations of our design team, the exhibitor contributions will animate an understanding of contemporary architecture and design in the United States as a source of civic engagement and community building, a resource for social and environmental resiliency and as fundamentally committed to the greater good of society, MacKeith continued. We hope these ideals and ambitions resonate across the creative communities of the nation, and encourage continued submissions over the next week. Like a big porch inviting the world in, our open call for participation welcomes artists, architects and designers from all regions of the country to share their creativity, Chin added. I am eager to see how these porches, at all scales from rural to urban, will evoke memories of breezy shady spaces, places for gathering or welcoming strangers to stop and chat. Our ideal is to engage new voices who spark new ideas for the American PORCH.The porch plays an important role as a cultural and architectural representation of American life, Bigelow noted. It acts as a stage for social interactions and contributes to the storytelling of communities. These stories will broaden dramatically through welcoming creators from around the country to contribute to the PORCH, showing the diversity of the American experience on the world stage.The co-commissioners encourage submissions that explore the multidimensional role porches play in American culture from citizens, states, and territories nationwide.The open call for submissions opened on December 3, as reported by AN. Exhibition selections will be announced February 3, and exhibitions at the U.S. Pavilion will debut on May 10. The Architects Newspaper will be the exhibitions media partner. PORCH will remain open through November 23.For those interested in submitting, relevant projects must have been completed after the year 2000. Guidelines and the submission portal can be accessed here.Selected participants will receive a modest stipend to support the further development of their projects into a designated format for exhibition.There will be another call later this January that will gather unbuilt and speculative proposals from architecture and design students.The 2025 International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will be curated by Carlo Rattiunder the theme ofIntelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective.