As seen : exhibitions that made architecture and design history / edited by Zoë Ryan ; with contributions by Paola Antonelli, Jan Boelen, Meredith Carruthers, Alison J. Clarke, Penelope Dean, Alison Fisher, Lindsay Garbutt, Karen Kice, Prem Krishnamurthy, Sylvia Lavin, Debbie Millman, Jonathan Olivares, Alice Rawsthorn, Zoë Ryan, and Mirko Zardini

Object Details

editor

Ryan, Zoë

CHM copy Purchased from the Cooper Hewitt Library Endowment.

Contents

Foreword / James Rondeau -- Taking positions: an incomplete history of architecture and design exhibitions / Zoë Ryan : The challenges of architecture and design exhibitions ; A brief prehistory of exhibitions ; Advancing ideas: eleven exhibitions -- Case studies / Lindsay Garbutt : This is tomorrow: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1956 ; IBM Pavilion, New York World's Fair, New York, 1964 ; Expo '70, Osaka, 1970 ; Italy: the new domestic landscape, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1972 ; Man transforms, Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, New York, 1976 ; Memphis, Arc '74 Showroom, Salone del Mobile, Milan, 1981 ; Droog, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 1993; Salone del Mobile, Milan, 1993 ; Mutant material in contemporary design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1995; Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 1996; Living Design Center, Tokyo, 1996; National Gallery of Modern Art, Prague, 1997; Groninger Museum, Groninger, 1997 ; Massive change: the future of global design, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2004; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2005; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2006 ; Sense of the city: an alternate approach to urbanism, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 2005 ; Super normal: sensations of the ordinary, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, 2006; London Design Week, London, 2006; Salone del Mobile, Design Museum Ghent, Ghent, 2010 -- The feedback machine: exhibition reviews and the critical lens / Alison Fisher and Karen Kice : World's fairs and expositions ; Critical perspectives in the museum ; Commercial galleries and trade fairs ; Research ; Conclusion -- Conversations : Radical Italian design: the exhibition as Trojan horse / Alison J. Clarke -- Style: Memphis, Droog, super normal / Jonathan Olivares -- Branded vision / Debbie Millman -- Politics and presentation / Prem Krishnamurthy -- Curating connection: the case of the Biennial of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia / Jan Boelen -- Exhibiting and collecting ideas: a Montreal perspective / Mirko Zardini -- Digital natives / Paola Antonelli -- Some other systems of orientation: publishing exhibitions / Meredith Carruthers -- On the uses and abuses of the exhibition review / Penelope Dean -- Design critiques / Alice Rawsthorn -- Just what is it that makes today's architectural exhibitions so different, so appealing? / Sylvia Lavin

Summary

"Exhibitions have long played a crucial role in defining disciplinary histories. This volume examines the impact of eleven groundbreaking architecture and design exhibitions held between 1956 and 2006, revealing the different ways they have shaped how these disciplines are understood and practiced today. Featuring written and photographic descriptions of the shows and essays from noted curators, scholars, critics, designers, and artists, As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History explores the multifaceted ways in which exhibitions have reflected on contemporary dilemmas and opened up new processes and ways of working. Providing a fresh perspective on some of the most important exhibitions of the 20th century from America, Europe, and Japan, including This Is Tomorrow, Expo '70, and Massive Change, this book offers a new framework for thinking about how exhibitions can function as a transformative force in the field of architecture and design"-- Provided by publisher.

2017

20th century

21st century

Type

Exhibitions

Exhibition catalogs

History

Physical description

143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Architecture--Exhibitions--History

Design--Exhibitions--History

Architecture and society--History

Design--Social aspects

Record ID

siris_sil_1092477

Metadata Usage (text)

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