Copiously illustrated with texts and pictures, this book offers a first exploration of this exciting and wide-ranging subject: The Art of Architecture Exhibitions.
Architecture exhibitions and publications are increasingly used as the platform for discussing and disseminating ideas about architecture. Yet a thorough understanding of the art of architecture exhibitions is seldom apparent. What purpose do models serve? How are digital media deployed? What role does the architect fulfil as curator and designer? Should an architecture exhibition express a political commitment. The Art of Architecture Exhibitions seeks to elicit answers by inviting the views of a number of internationally renowned architects and architecture critics, among them Bart Lootsma, Jean-Louis Cohen, Hani Rashid, Elizabeth Diller, Massimiliano Fuksas, Boris Podrecca and Catherine David.
The most important NAI exhibitions of the past five years are illustrated; each designer outlines the exhibition concept. Finally, a collage of texts and pictures provides a fascinating historical survey of the architecture exhibition in the twentieth-century.