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Thordis Arrhenius, Mari Lending, Wallis Miller, Jérémie Michael McGowan (eds.)

Place and Displacement
Exhibiting Architecture

Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been conflated with urgent discussions of how material culture is handed down, distributed, appropriated, and evaluated. Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture

investigates historical and contemporary practices of displaying architecture, whether in full scale or as fragments, models, or two-dimensional representations.

Exploring questions of circulation and temporality, issues of institution and canon, and the discourse and politics of architectural spaces on exhibit, the book’s essays discuss the

ambiguous status of architecture as an object of display. Contributions from leading scholars in the new research field of architectural exhibitions reveal the centrality of the exhibition in defining and redefining the notion of architecture and its history.

Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been conflated with urgent discussions of how material culture is handed down, distributed, appropriated, and evaluated. Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture

investigates historical and contemporary practices of displaying architecture, whether in full scale or as fragments, models, or two-dimensional representations.

Exploring questions of circulation and temporality, issues of institution and canon, and the discourse and politics of architectural spaces on exhibit, the book’s essays discuss the

ambiguous status of architecture as an object of display. Contributions from leading scholars in the new research field of architectural exhibitions reveal the centrality of the exhibition in defining and redefining the notion of architecture and its history.

Edited by Thordis Arrhenius, Mari Lending, Wallis Miller, Jérémie Michael McGowan

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16,5 x 24 cm, 6 ½ x 9 ½ in

248 pages, 82 illustrations

paperback

2014, 978-3-03778-416-7, English
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Thordis Arrhenius

Thordis Arrhenius is an architect and architectural researcher with a strong engagement in contemporary architectural and urban practice and their theories. She is a professor of culture heritage at the Department of Social Change and Culture (ISAK) of Linköping University and a founding member of OCCAS – the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies. Arrhenius’ research interests concern the exhibition of architecture in mass culture, the relation between architecture and the museum, and the curatorial aspects of preservation. She is the co-editor of Place and Displacement (2014) and Experimental Preservation (2016).

Mari Lending

Mari Lending is a professor in architectural theory and history, and a founding member of OCCAS (the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies). She did her first dissertation (Mag. art) in comparative literature on Marcel Proust at the University of Oslo (1997) and defended her Ph.D. dissertation in architectural historiography at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in 2005. From 2005 through 2009, she was a postdoctoral fellow on the research project Modernism on Display. Lending has been a visiting scholar at the GSD, Harvard University, Columbia University, NY, and at Yale School of Architecture. Among her most recent books are Plaster Monuments. Architecture and the Power of Reproduction and, with Peter Zumthor, A Feeling of History.

Wallis Miller

Wallis Miller is associate professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky.

Jérémie McGowan

Jérémie McGowan is curator of architecture at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway.

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