Curating Architecture and the City: Recent Australian Pavilions

Susan Holden; Ashley Paine

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/10140

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Susan Holden University of Queensland http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5201-7144

Susan Holden is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Queensland. Current research focuses on the relationship between art and architecture from the 20^thcentury to the present, the place of architecture in cultural administration and policy, and the historical development of ideas about civic form in campus design. Her research is published in international scholarly journals The Journal of Architecture, Leonardo, AA Files and Fabrications and she contributes to the professional journal Architecture Australia.
Ashley Paine University of Queensland http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2777-2735

Ashley Paine is an architect and Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. His research is broadly concerned with the history, design and exhibition of building surfaces and ornament. His recent publications have examined topics as diverse as the history of striped façades, the reconstruction of architecture in museums, and the posthumously built works of Frank Lloyd Wright. Ashley has contributed to journals including, AA Files, The Architectural Review, ARQ, and Interstices, and is co-founder of Brisbane-based practice, PHAB Architects.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/10140

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pavilion, curation, curating architecture, architecture exhibitions

Abstract

In recent decades, pavilions have emerged as a popular vehicle for exhibitions of architecture: these often spectacular structures and immersive environments becoming both the object and subject of display. Yet, despite their ubiquity, and the increasing interest of art galleries and institutions in exhibiting and commissioning architectural projects, the pavilion has largely escaped interrogation within the discourse and practice of curation. Taking three recent Australian pavilion programs as its focus, this essay examines the diverse challenges of curating this kind of full-scale architecture, and the ways in which architecture is curated in or through them. In particular, the Australian pavilions raise important questions concerning the curatorial work: what is being curated, by whom, and to what ends? Such questions are critical to understanding the changing place of architecture in contemporary culture, but also the limits and opportunities presented by architecture in an ever-widening field of curation.

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