6.10.2021

Making Exhibitions, por Roca Gallery

A Pittsburgh quartet.

Architecture exhibitions are something of a contradiction in terms. Although architects and historians have long made exhibitions, and published copious accompanying catalogues, the material on view is nearly always a mere representation of architecture and not architecture itself.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Europeans of means traveled to Italy, Greece, perhaps as far as Egypt, touring the famous sites and frequently returning home with fragments or, more likely, casts of fragments to signal refinement and to serve as markers for architects and builders in their home countries. Visitors can still enjoy such casts at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in Paris, and the Hall of Architecture at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art.

Modernism blew away many of those predilections regarding imagery, style and the role of history. The famous Modern Architecture: International Exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1932 heralded the new International Style in the United States with large models and black-and-white photographic blow-ups. With many of the selected buildings sited in Europe, photography proved an excellent medium to bring distant architecture and exhibition visitors together.

In recent decades, the number of architecture exhibitions has greatly increased, their diversity and the variety of ways in which architecture can be exhibited indicated by ambitious new biennales as well as pop-up exercises across the globe. Exhibition makers have learned from the worlds of art, design, film, new media, and science.

This document was first published in www.rocagallery.com.

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