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Curating Architecture
08 March 2007
Goldsmiths
Curating Architecture
Curating Architecture
Audience
Curating Architecture
Intentions
Cities over 1 million
1950
Cities over 1 million
2000
Cities over 1 million
2015
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Staging
corderie_ general distribution
global picture
South America
12 cities, why?
general themes
Asia
Europe
special area
Africa
general themes
North America
conclusions
Curating Architecture
Curating Architecture
Describing/Prescribing
Very recently, European architects in Prada dinner jackets and Le Coq Sportif have been here,
reciting statistics from Dutch coffee-table exhibition catalogues, of the new avant-garde status of
third world metropoles carelessly breaking all urban records, proportions, and aesthetic
standards. Western concepts and terminologies, they say, trying to sound apocalyptic, ominous,
touched, enthusiastic and nonchalant at the same time, can no longer do justice to the many
Tehrans of this shifting world.
- Tirdad Zolghadr
Ricky Burdett’s curatorship of the Biennale this year was all about context. And by and large it
was about the kind of massive context that architects cannot affect. Economic prosperity, crime,
national and international mobility, ecology, literacy and population growth were the main
parameters the exhibition was interested in, all things that more typically occupy geographers,
sociologists and politicians.
- Kieran Long, ICON
Curating Architecture
Beyond ‘Best Practice’?
Curating Architecture
Complementarities