Representing Architecture - Design Museum
Representing Architecture: New discussions on ideologies, techniques, curation.
The first book in the Design Museum's academic publications series; "Representing..", here Architecture is put under the scholastic microscope, with a range of essays examining debates and issues surrounding the curation of architecture exhibitions, to bring awareness to a broader community of practicioners, curators and museum audiences.
This publication is borne out of a series of workshops hosted by Kingston University in collaboration with the Design Museum and the Architecture Foundation.
Essays:
Adrian Forty - "Ways of knowing, ways of showing: a short history of architectural exhibitions"
Shumon Basar - "Bad exhibitions, bad ontology"
Peter Cachola Schmal - "What are architectural museums good for?"
Nick Barley - "Collecting and exhibiting in a Scottish context"
Jane Thomas - "The Sir Basil Spence Project"
99 pages
Designed by Lucienne Roberts
Photography by Luke Hayes
Materials
Paperback
