Exhibitions

All Exhibitions

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Ecological Urbanism

The contemporary urban environment is facilitated by ecologies that exceed the city’s physical and political limits, reaching into hinterlands and beyond. Urbanism is also made up of many smaller pieces—a mosaic, as Richard T.T. Forman describes urban as well as rural landscapes—between which the boundaries…

MAR 30 – MAY 17, 2009

Gareth Doherty, Curator

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The Architecture of Aggression

This exhibition includes printed books, plans, photographs and manuscripts from the Special Collections. Included are photographs of mediaeval Spanish fortresses from the H.H. Richardson Collection, materials from the Norman T. Newton Collection related to the work of the Allied Subcommission on Monuments in Italy in…

FEB 1 – MAY 1, 2009

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Concrete in the Landscape: 3 Sites|3 Projects

Peter Rose’s exhibit used video, line drawings, renderings, and physical models to show how concrete is placed in the landscape to shape building spaces while also capturing and focusing energies essential to each of three very different sites. Used for its robust material qualities and…

MAR 13 – APR 22, 2009

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PATTERNS: Cases in Synthetic Intelligence

Establishing links between otherwise disparate cultural, intellectual, and technological categories has long been the job of the architect. An arbiter of aesthetic connection, who else can create a bond between the Parthenon and a sportscar, bricks and B movies, octogenarians and the color orange? This…

JAN 26 – MAR 15, 2009

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Afterlife

Alison and Peter Smithson's Economist Building at Fifty November 19, 2008–January 11, 2009 Peter Christiansen, curator Mary Daniels, organizer Ines Zaluendo, organizer Drawn entirely from the GSD’s Special Collections, this two part exhibition focuses on the landmark Economist Building by British…

NOV 19, 2008 – JAN 11, 2009

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Platform 1 Exhibition

An Archeology of the Present November 03, 2008–January 11, 2009 Moshen Mostafavi, Dean Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, author Lluis Ortega, curator Utopias afford consolation: although they have no real locality there is nevertheless a fantastic, untroubled region in which they…

NOV 3, 2008 – JAN 11, 2009

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Afterlife: Alison and Peter Smithson's Economist Building at Fifty

September 1, 2008–December 1, 2008 Peter Christensen, curator This two part exhibition includes original drawings, and other materials including film, publications, typescripts and clippings, illustrating the building's significance in the British cultural imaginary.   Fall 2008 Library Special Collections Department and…

SEP 1 – DEC 1, 2008

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New Trajectories: Contemporary Architecture in Croatia and Slovenia

Both Croatia and Slovenia have had a complex cultural, economic, and political history, and now as members of a New Europe are sites of intense, inspiring, and productive architectural and urban debates.  The exhibition focused on innovative practices in architecture and urbanism in Croatia and…

SEP 8 – OCT 19, 2008

Mariana Ibanez, Curator