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.

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Author:   Sarah Chaplin (University of Greenwich, UK) ,  Alexandra Stara (Kingston University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780415489836

ISBN 10:   0415489830
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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