2021 ACSA Teachers Conference, Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design in Action

On Planting and Deconstruction: The Architecture Exhibition as Radical Medium

Teachers Proceedings

Author(s): Charlott Greub

This presentation reviews Rotor’s strategic use of the exhibition medium in the light of radical practices in architecture and design since the 1960’s. To interrogate these radical manifestations two architecture exhibitions will be examined as case studies. The first exhibition was curated by Emilio Ambasz and titled, “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” in 1972 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the second one was staged at the Venice Biennale in Italy in 2010 by Rotor titled “Usus/Usures”. The selected exhibitions will be reviewed to explore the current and past debate of radical practices when associated with ecology, sustainability, and environmental protection and the potential discourse that aims to inspire a radical redesign of the discipline.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2021.37

Volume Editors
Jonathan A. Scelsa & Jørgen Johan Tandberg

ISBN
978-1-944214-38-8