As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History
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 the many ways they have shaped how these disciplines are understood and practiced today. Featuring written and photographic descriptions of the shows and illuminating 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, the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair, 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.
Author: Zoë Ryan
Co-Editor (with Jeanne Gang), Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects (SGA/ Yale University Press, Chicago, September 2012)
Fashioning the Object: Bless, Boudicca, Sandra Backlund (AIC/ Yale University Press, Chicago April 2012)
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Editor, Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention (AIC/ Yale University Press, Chicago, September 2011)
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Co-Author (with Joseph Rosa), Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design (AIC/ Yale University Press, Chicago, December 2010)
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Building with Water: Concepts, Typology, Design (Birkhauser Press, Germany, June 2010)
Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design (AIC/ Yale University Press, Chicago, October 2009)
Graphic Thought Facility: Resourceful Design (AIC/ Yale University Press, Chicago, March 2008).
Co-Editor (with Jonathan Cohen-Litant), Coney Island: The Parachute Pavilion Competition (VAI/Princeton Architectural Press, New York, February 2007)
Editor, The Good Life: New Public Spaces for Recreation (VAI/Princeton Architectural Press, New York, September 2006)
Co-Editor (with Raymond W. Gastil), OPEN: New Designs for Public Space (VAI/Princeton Architectural Press, New York, January 2004)
Co-Editor (with Raymond W. Gastil) Information Exchange: How Cities Renew, Rebuild and Remember (VAI/ Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2002)