PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Over the last fifty years, exhibitions have proven to be a vital medium for architectural discourse, serving as platforms through which institutions and audiences have attended to architecture’s social, cultural, political, and environmental responsibilities. Futures of the Architectural Exhibition investigates the ways in which contemporary curators have approached questions of display in exhibitions and in their stewardship of diverse institutional platforms for the representation of architecture and design. The seven curatorial positions highlighted in this book reflect the specific challenges of operating within distinct institutional and noninstitutional settings and their differing frameworks for research, display, and engagement with both public and professional audiences. Reflecting shifts in contemporary curatorial thinking in response to a changing present, these dialogues suggest pathways toward multiple possible futures for the architectural exhibition.

Like a casual conversation, this small book is set up as a dialogue. Comfortably legible in two typefaces at a larger scale, distinguishing question and answer to give form to a lively back and forth, and interspersed with visual material to familiarize the reader with some of the projects discussed. Each of the seven conversations starts with a solid black page, to create a cut, which is also visible in the book's section. The book oscillates between the informal character of an affordable paperback in one color, and the rigor of its content, reflected in a durable, sewn, lay-flat construction, and the elegance of silk-screened white type on a colored black paper for the cover.

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 4¼ x 7 inches

Number of Pages: 336

Binding Method: Paperback, sewn, layflat (Otabind)

Paper: Fedrigoni, Arena White Rough, 90g/m2; Black Magic, 320g/m2

Typefaces: GT Walsheim and GT Sectra Fine

CREDIT INFORMATION

Creative Director: Reto Geiser

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Book Designer: Noëmi Mollet and Reto Geiser

Jacket/Cover Designer: Noëmi Mollet and Reto Geiser

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