Léa-Catherine Szacka: Exhiber le postmoderne
The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale
On Thursday, April 20, 2017, at 7:00 PM, a lecture by Léa-Catherine Szacka: Exhibiting the Postmodern – The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale will take place at the VI PER Gallery in Prague.
Léa-Catherine Szacka's lecture, which builds on her recently published book Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale (Vystavená postmoderna: Bienále architektury v Benátkách 1980; published by Marsilio Editori, 2016), will explore the roots and impacts of the first International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. By situating the exhibition The Presence of the Past in a broader historical context, tracing the emergence of architectural exhibitions, Szacka reflects on their development during the postmodern period and shows that the aforementioned exhibition was not only a milestone in the history of curation but also the beginning of the end and the end of the beginning of the postmodern turn in architecture. By describing institutional changes and exhibition techniques and spaces alongside discourses and disagreements between proponents of modern and postmodern architecture, the book narrates the story of the evolution of architectural exhibitions as a "genre" of cultural expressions. It focuses on the history of the Biennale in Venice, but also more generally on Italian architecture of the 1970s and the history of postmodernism. It reveals how the Venice Biennale 1980 foreshadowed a shift in the relationship between the worlds of art and architecture, as well as the subsequent transformation of the architectural product as its resultant.
Léa-Catherine Szacka is an assistant professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), where she is also a member of the Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS). She is an architect, critic, and researcher in the field of history and theory of architecture. She earned her doctoral degree from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London (2011). Her work focuses on the history of architectural exhibitions and the history and theory of postmodern architecture. She has lectured and published on postmodern architecture, and together with Charles Jencks and Eva Branscome, she edited the reissue of The Post-Modern Reader (2011). Her writings have appeared in numerous journals (Log, OASE, Arch+, AA Files, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Architecture, Domus, Architectural Design, and Volume) and books including Exhibiting Architecture: Place and Displacement (Lars Müller, 2014) and the recently published Re-Framing Identities: Architecture’s Turn to History, 1970–1990 (Birkhäuser, 2017). In early 2014, she organized a significant symposium at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, which resulted in a special issue of Cahiers du Musée national d’art (in the fall of 2014), to which she also contributed. In 2014, she exhibited her project Effimero: Or the Postmodern Italian Condition as a contribution to Monditalia, part of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. Last year, she served as project manager for the After Belonging Academy, an educational forum of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, a key component of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. She is currently preparing a publication titled Mediating Messages: On the Role of Exhibitions and Periodicals in Critically Shaping Postmodern Architecture (co-editor Véronique Patteeuw, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2018).
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Léa-Catherine Szacka's lecture, which builds on her recently published book Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale (Vystavená postmoderna: Bienále architektury v Benátkách 1980; published by Marsilio Editori, 2016), will explore the roots and impacts of the first International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. By situating the exhibition The Presence of the Past in a broader historical context, tracing the emergence of architectural exhibitions, Szacka reflects on their development during the postmodern period and shows that the aforementioned exhibition was not only a milestone in the history of curation but also the beginning of the end and the end of the beginning of the postmodern turn in architecture. By describing institutional changes and exhibition techniques and spaces alongside discourses and disagreements between proponents of modern and postmodern architecture, the book narrates the story of the evolution of architectural exhibitions as a "genre" of cultural expressions. It focuses on the history of the Biennale in Venice, but also more generally on Italian architecture of the 1970s and the history of postmodernism. It reveals how the Venice Biennale 1980 foreshadowed a shift in the relationship between the worlds of art and architecture, as well as the subsequent transformation of the architectural product as its resultant.
Léa-Catherine Szacka is an assistant professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), where she is also a member of the Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS). She is an architect, critic, and researcher in the field of history and theory of architecture. She earned her doctoral degree from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London (2011). Her work focuses on the history of architectural exhibitions and the history and theory of postmodern architecture. She has lectured and published on postmodern architecture, and together with Charles Jencks and Eva Branscome, she edited the reissue of The Post-Modern Reader (2011). Her writings have appeared in numerous journals (Log, OASE, Arch+, AA Files, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Architecture, Domus, Architectural Design, and Volume) and books including Exhibiting Architecture: Place and Displacement (Lars Müller, 2014) and the recently published Re-Framing Identities: Architecture’s Turn to History, 1970–1990 (Birkhäuser, 2017). In early 2014, she organized a significant symposium at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, which resulted in a special issue of Cahiers du Musée national d’art (in the fall of 2014), to which she also contributed. In 2014, she exhibited her project Effimero: Or the Postmodern Italian Condition as a contribution to Monditalia, part of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. Last year, she served as project manager for the After Belonging Academy, an educational forum of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, a key component of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. She is currently preparing a publication titled Mediating Messages: On the Role of Exhibitions and Periodicals in Critically Shaping Postmodern Architecture (co-editor Véronique Patteeuw, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2018).
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