Curating Architecture and the City

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ISBN: 9780415489836 | 0415489830
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Copyright: 6/5/2009

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The collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment is explored for the first time in a major work addressing current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities.

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Illustration credits	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
City tours and urban reveries	p. 7
The city and the text: remembering Dublin in Ulysses: remembering Ulysses in Dublin	p. 9
Choosing (what) to learn from - Las Vegas, Los Angeles, London, Rome, Lagos...?	p. 23
Curated desires: film, photography and the visual transformation of urban space in surrealism	p. 39
Moving city: curating architecture on site	p. 51
Awaiting the voice-over: the Öresund Film Commission location database and the mediatization of architectural landscape	p. 62
Curating contemporary architecture: touring the Bilbao Guggenheim and Seattle Central Library	p. 78
Rethinking curatorship, rethinking architecture	p. 91
Cura	p. 93
Caring for dead architecture	p. 103
Exhibiting architecture: the installation as laboratory for emerging architecture	p. 117
From flash art to flash mob: how have new gallery spaces informed the nature of contemporary display?	p. 129
Reading into the mysteries of Artemis Ephesia	p. 145
Reinterpreting public space and cultural heritage	p. 165
Curating the social, curating the architectural	p. 167
Expanding the public realm through curated collaborative action: the Echigo Tsumari abandoned house project	p. 179
Curating the nation: Turkish pavilions in world expositions	p. 193
After branding: a lively downtown?	p. 207
The necessity of distance: setting the position for critical spatial practice	p. 219
Urban fictions with the office for subversive architecture	p. 233
Afterword: please do not touch	p. 246
Index	p. 249
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