Review - As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History

As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History edited Zoë Ryan (Matthew Messner)

"A prevailing theme throughout the essays, if not the book as a whole, is the changing nature and role of exhibitions throughout time. Sylvia Lavin discusses the allure of contemporary exhibitions thanks to their blend of demonstration (full-scale architecture-artifacts), aesthetics (design as art), and information, all of which developed in design and architectural exhibitions in stops and starts in the past century. "

"The physical book, designed by Project Projects, is appropriately reminiscent of a museum catalog. Highly stylized graphic design, rich imagery, and bold use of multiple paper stocks and colors make it an artifact in itself, an idea discussed extensively in the text about catalogs."

Read the complete review of As Seen at The Architects Newspaper - Pioneering exhibitions that changed architecture and design

As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History
Zoë Ryan
Art Institute of Chicago, $31.97