44
On Display
July 2015
One of architecture’s histories is that of the art of display: architecture displaying power, political ambition, economic success, social agendas, or less mundane notions like dreams, convictions and belief. These days architecture has also become subjected to display: the display of architecture — in museums and collections, and in auctions for example. That adds but also distracts meaning; not every aspect of architecture can be displayed as easy. And what does a culture of display (be seen or perish) add to this condition? Thinking of the value of architecture beyond purely financial terms, ‘display’ is a factor of influence. For better or for worse.
Take for instance the relatively recent phenomenon of collecting architecture (famous villas) or the trend to sell designer houses on art auctions. And what do the fair and expo, where national architecture is at display, do to our understanding of architecture? We know that for the architecture of display, the museum, the architecture itself is an important element in its success. Does the same hold for a storage building containing art? By now we expect to see architecture in a gallery when visiting the museum, a site that has undoubtedly expanded the field of architectural discourse and production. Is architecture destined to choose between content and container though, or are there other horizons for architecture in the museum?
Volume #44 includes an insert by Het Nieuwe Instituut on 1:1 models, featuring Andreas Angelidakis, Floor van Ast, Guus Beumer, Hetty Berens, Petra Blaisse, Patrick Healy, Dirk van den Heuvel, Inside Outside, Marten Kuijpers.
Contributors
AIRBNB Pavilion, Brendan Cormier, Tina DiCarlo, Sjarel Ex, Fabrizio Gallanti, Marten Gielen/Rotor, Rory Hyde, Mari Lending, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jana Pavlová, Stephan Petermann/AMO
Details
Volume #44: On Display
Editor in chief Arjen Oosterman
Designed by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller
144 Pages
Soft-cover Binding
ISSN 1574-9401
ISBN 9789077966440
