Curating Architecture and the City

ISBN-13: 9780415489836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 258 str.

Sarah Chaplin

Opis

Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial 'subject' and an architectural 'object'. Striking a balance between theoretical investigations and case studies, the chapters cover a broad methodological as well as thematic range. Examining the influential role of architectural exhibitions, the contributors also look at curatorship as an emerging attitude towards the investigation and interpretation of the city. International in scope, this collection investigates curation, architecture and the city across the world, opening up new possibilities for exploring the urban fabric.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: City Tours and Urban Reveries  1. Remembering Dublin in Ulysses  2. Choose (What) to Learn from Las Vegas, LA, London, Rome, Lagos…?  3. Curated Desires: Film, Photography and the Visual Transformation of Urban Space in Surrealism  4. Moving City: Curating Architecture on Site  5. Awaiting the Voice-Over: The Oresund Film Commission Location Database and the Mediatization of Architectural Landscape  6. Curating Contemporary Architecture: Touring the Bilbao Guggenheim and Seattle Central Library  Part 2: Rethinking Curatorship, Rethinking Architecture  7. Cura  8. Caring for Dead Architecture  9. Exhibiting Architecture: The Installation as Laboratory for Emerging Architecture  10. From Flash Art to Flash Mob: Art in the Age of Spectacularisation  11. Reading into the Mysteries of Artemis Ephesia  Part 3: Re-interpreting Public Space and Cultural Heritage  12. Curating the Social, Curating the Architectural  13. Expanding the Public Realm Through Curated Collaborative Action: The Echigo Tsumari Abandoned House Project  14. Curating the Nation: Turkish Pavilions in World Expositions  15. After Branding – A Lively Downtown?  16. The Necessity of Distance: Setting the Position for Critical Spatial Practice  17. Urban Fictions with the Office for Subversive Architecture.  Afterword