Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display

In the forty years since the first iteration of Venice Architecture Biennale, the field of architecture has seen a remarkable change in the role played by exhibition-making. While architecture and display have long been intertwined practices, a rapid proliferation of large-scale perennial exhibitions--particularly in the twenty-first century--has resulted in the biennial / triennial becoming an integral part of our discipline, a new geography of itinerant display that has profoundly altered the contours of architectural thought. Between format, space, and content, what are the various agencies and effects of these events? Biennials / Triennials asks these questions and others of a range of curatorial agents--including After Belonging Agency, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, Sarah Herda, Adrian Lahoud, Ippolito Pestellini, and Andre Tavares--and visits crucial sites of recent exhibitions that reveal what is at stake in the newfound ubiquity of the architectural -ennial.

Author: Léa-Catherine Szacka
Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Published: 09/17/2019
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781941332559
ISBN10: 1941332552
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Criticism
- Architecture | History | Contemporary (1945 -)

About the Author
Léa-Catherine Szacka is a lecturer in architectural studies at the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARg), University of Manchester, and is the author of Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale (Marsilio, 2016, winner of the SAHGB's Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion).