US News lists curator as “one of the 50 best careers of 2010,” and the curator is now popping up as a film role in Hollywood – for example, in When in Rome and Dinner for Schmucks (spoiler alert: the curator is not one of the schmucks). Indeed, having followed the expanding use of the term “curating” over the past three years, we here at Log believe its traditions within architecture can no longer go unexamined. Log 20, published on the occasion of the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, considers curating architecture both within its contemporary guises and historical lineage. Practitioners from New York to Paris, Moscow to Tokyo propose curating as advocacy, as atmosphere, and as architecture itself, assembling in this special thematic issue what is arguably the first compendium of contemporary practices on this emerging discourse.
Contents
Barry Bergdoll, In the Wake of Rising Currents: The Activist Exhibition
Eve Blau, Curating Architecture with Architecture
Jean-Louis Cohen, Mirror of Dreams
Cynthia Davidson, Drawn In
Marco De Michelis, Architecture Meets in Venice
Tina Di Carlo, Exhibitionism
Manfredo di Robilant, Pippo Ciorra Takes A Job at MAXXI
Ole W. Fischer, In the Shadow of Monumentality
Kurt W. Forster, Show Me: Arguments for an Architecture of Display
Jeffrey Kipnis, Dear Paula
Sylvia Lavin, Showing Work
Paula Lee, Still Life, After Death
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Biennial Manifesto
Kayoko Ota, Curating as Architectural Practice
Andrea Phillips, Pavilion Politics
Alex Schweder, Exhibit Architecture
Felicity D. Scott, Operating Platforms
Robert A.M. Stern, From the Past: Strada Novissima
Léa-Catherine Szacka, A Conversation with Vittorio Gregotti
Henry Urbach, Exhibition as Atmosphere
Philip Ursprung, The Indispensable Catalogue
Eyal Weizman & Tina Di Carlo, Dying to Speak: Forensic Spatiality
Mirko Zardini, Exhibiting and Collecting Ideas: A Montreal Perspective
PLUS: New Canaan ... Moscow ... Hong Kong
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