Curating Architecture and the City

by Sarah Chaplin (Editor), Alexandra Stara (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415489836
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2009
Series:	Critiques , #4
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sarah Chaplin is Deputy Director of the Urban Renaissance Institute and Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Greenwich, London.

Alexandra Stara is Director of Graduate History & Theory and Principal Lecturer at the School of Architecture & Landscape, University of Kingston, UK.

Table of Contents

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