Curating Architecture

08 March 2007

Goldsmiths

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Audience

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Intentions

Cities over 1 million1950

Cities over 1 million2000

Cities over 1 million2015

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Staging

Asia

corderie_ general distribution

global picture

general themes12 cities, why?

South America

special area

Europe Africa

conclusions

North America

general themes

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Describing/Prescribing

Very recently, European architects in Prada dinner jackets and Le Coq Sportif have been here, reciting statistics from Dutch coffee-table exhibition catalogues, of the new avant-garde status

of third world metropoles carelessly breaking all urban records, proportions, and aesthetic standards. Western concepts and terminologies, they say, trying to sound apocalyptic, ominous,

touched, enthusiastic and nonchalant at the same time, can no longer do justice to the many Tehrans of this shifting world.

- Tirdad Zolghadr

Ricky Burdett’s curatorship of the Biennale this year was all about context. And by and large it was about the kind of massive context that architects cannot affect. Economic prosperity, crime,

national and international mobility, ecology, literacy and population growth were the main parameters the exhibition was interested in, all things that more typically occupy geographers,

sociologists and politicians.

- Kieran Long, ICON

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Beyond ‘Best Practice’?

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Complementarities