As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History

by Zoe Ryan (Editor), Paula Antonelli (Contributor), Jan Boelen (Contributor)

Exhibitions have long played a crucial role in defining disciplinary histories. This fascinating volume examines the impact of eleven groundbreaking architecture and design exhibitions held between 1956 and 2006, revealing how they have shaped contemporary understanding and practice of these fields. Featuring written and photographic descriptions of the shows and illuminating essays from noted curators, scholars, critics, designers, and theorists, As 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.   

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago

Genres: Design, Nonfiction, Architecture

144 pages, Paperback

Published October 24, 2017

Reviews

[Avşar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully conceptualised and framed by Ryan, every contribution unfolds the layers of these 11 exhibitions which maybe -not maybe, definitely- changed the course of history, theory and practice of design and architecture.