Exhibiting the postmodern : the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale /

"Exhibiting the postmodern traces the origins and significance of the First International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Situating the 1980 exhibition The presence of the past against the larger historical backdrop in which architecture exhibitions appear, and considering their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Szacka, Léa-Catherine (Author)
Other Authors:	Forty, Adrian, 1948- (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Venezia : Marsilio, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	International Architectural Exhibition > (1st : > 1980 : > Venice, Italy) Architecture, Italian > Exhibitions > 20th century. Architecture, Postmodern > Exhibitions > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the architecture exhibition in context
I. The biennale is dead, long live the biennale!
II. Addressing the exhibition paradox
III. The beginning of the end and the end of the beginning.