Exhibiting Architecture: A Polemic

Abstract

In this essay, I question the premise of exhibiting architecture. As an architect, exhibition designer and researcher, I have been watching, designing and assisting in the curation of exhibitions that attempt this task and still I wonder if any truly fulfill the charge of exhibiting architecture. Parsing the history and multivalent influences of the architectural exhibition, I write this essay in an attempt to answer the question of what it means to exhibit architecture.