This website is designed to support the presentation of the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2021, commissioned by architects Paul Preissner and Paul Anderson. The exhibition presents the subject of wood framing in a collection of works throughout the galleries and grounds of the U.S. Pavilion. A four-story installation forms a new façade for the historic pavilion—a half-section of a wood framed house through which visitors enter the exhibition. The 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia comes at a time when cultural practices are struggling with their histories. American Framing makes the case that a profound and powerful future for design can be conceived out of an anonymous past. A forthcoming book designed by Joe Gilmore will be published by Park Books in 2022. http://americanframing.org