Editorial 44

Architecture has become an object to be exhibited. Since the beginning of this century, it has definitively found a place for itself in art museums, galleries and biennales. Nevertheless, this transformation of architecture and its connection to exhibition spaces is not new – it has a long history,...

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Main Authors: López Uribe, Cristina, del Real, Patricio
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2020
Online Access:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/77146
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Summary:Architecture has become an object to be exhibited. Since the beginning of this century, it has definitively found a place for itself in art museums, galleries and biennales. Nevertheless, this transformation of architecture and its connection to exhibition spaces is not new – it has a long history, one with ties to the practice and teaching of the discipline. In the early decades of the twentieth century, we can see it begin to be incorporated into the illuminated galleries of art museums, their walls painted a homogenous white; these decisive spaces would construct the dominant aesthetics and ethics of exhibitions, which modify and directly act upon that which they exhibit.