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Solicited: Proposals
Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, James Taylor-Foster
Contributors Maria Lind, Shirley Surya, Prem Krishnamurthy, Federico Martelli, Vasıf Kortun, Gilly Karjevsky, Rosario Talevi, Mpho Matsipa, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Molemo Moiloa, and more…

What happens in an architecture exhibition? What, and who is it for? What does it do, and how does it do it? Solicited: Proposals is a shared effort to parse the architecture exhibition, to untangle and rethink its meaning and its potential for today. Through the lens of a single element, each contribution seeks to reimagine the architecture exhibition: what it allows for and does not allow for; what it enables, what it disables; what it constructs and deconstructs.

Solicited: Proposals is a project initiated by ArkDes and e-flux Architecture.

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The Horizon
Civil Architecture
The horizon is present in every exhibition. Most times it is simply an afterthought, a subliminal line that follows the viewer through the gallery, an...
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The Guide
Space Popular
For visitors, the audio guide is a crucial point of access to the ideas and imaginations behind an exhibition. It is a friendly voice, arriving somewh...
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The Moment
Maria McLintock
­The neoliberalization of public services and austerity-led stripping of government finance towards the operation of museums across North America and ...
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The Weather
Lev Bratishenko and Melanija Grozdanoska
Exhibitions are environments of rigid climatic control. The ideal interior weather for artworks and artefacts require temperature and humidity to be k...
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The Caption
Mika Savela
Captioning is anything but a routine curatorial task. There are styles and tendencies, even existing criteria for excellence, with annual awards given...
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The Brief
Anna Livia Friel and Marco Provinciali
The brief, a specific genre of architectural writing, constitutes one of the necessary starting points for any architectural project, defining its obj...
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The Interpretation
Esther Choi
The will to influence is at the core of any exhibition. —Bruce W. Ferguson The making of culture relies on interpretation for its own validity. Thi...
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The Budget
Jia Yi Gu
Having served as director of two Los Angeles-based non-profit organizations dedicated to architectural exhibitions, I am often implicated in the makin...
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The Queue
Mpho Matsipa, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, and Molemo Moiloa
Western cultural institutions like the museum often presuppose an orderly spacing of time. The queue, in this sense, is anticipatory, but almost alway...
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The Outdoors
Gilly Karjevsky and Rosario Talevi
Architects are often taught that everything is architecture. That they are educated in a discipline with no boundaries, which reaches all aspects of l...
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The Threshold
Vasıf Kortun
A decade and some years ago, I was preoccupied with the question of laying out the fundamentals for a new institution, an institution for the present....
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The Object List
Federico Martelli
I once designed the exhibition for the collection of an important museum. The brief was simple: we were asked to work with the relationships between a...
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The Timeframe
Prem Krishnamurthy
This contribution is intended to be listened to. The exhibition is open only at specific hours, from dusk to midnight. During these periods, you ...
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The Collection
Shirley Surya
It is timely to write a self-reflexive account of building the permanent architecture collection at M+, a museum for visual culture encompassing visua...
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The Seating
Maria Lind
You are most likely sitting down while reading this. If not, please look for a place near you where you can take a seat and spend a moment. This text ...
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Editorial
Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, and James Taylor-Foster
Dear reader, What happens in an architecture exhibition? What, and who is it for? What does it do, and how does it do it? Solicited: Proposals is a s...
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Category
Museums
Subject
Architecture, Exhibition Histories, Curating, Institutional Critique

Solicited: Proposals is a project initiated by ArkDes and e-flux Architecture.

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