Kuehn Malvezzi: Curatorial Architecture is a major monograph on the Berlin studio that, since its founding in 2001, has placed art and curatorial thinking at the core of its architecture.
About This Book
Edited by Francesco Garutti, the book sidesteps the conventional architectural monograph. Rather than a chronological survey, it organises key projects from 20 years of Kuehn Malvezzi's practice under six operating principles drawn from the studio's thinking: the readymade, the display of architecture, the design of 'seeing machines', kinaesthetic narratives, and conceptual approaches to form and its inversion. The result positions the practice's quiet, art-informed method as an ethical reconsideration of how space is produced today. Designed by Something Fantastic, it is richly illustrated with almost 1000 colour and black-and-white images.
Key Features
- Key projects organised by six operating principles rather than chronology
- Texts by Nairy Baghramian, Francesco Garutti, Maria Giudici, Sam Jacob, Moritz Küng, Mark Nash, Alessandro Mendini, Simona Malvezzi and Wilfried Kuehn
- Around 650 colour and 300 black-and-white images
- Designed by Something Fantastic
What You'll Discover
- How curatorial strategies and conceptual art inform the design of buildings and public space
- The readymade and the display of architecture as design tools
- Kinaesthetic narratives and the idea of architecture as a 'seeing machine'
- The studio's work on museums, collections and exhibition spaces across Europe
About the Author
Francesco Garutti is an art and architecture curator and Associate Director of Programs at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Kuehn Malvezzi was founded in Berlin in 2001 by Johannes Kuehn, Wilfried Kuehn and Simona Malvezzi; Wilfried Kuehn is Professor of Spatial Design at TU Wien, and Malvezzi teaches curatorial practice at NABA in Milan.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 220 × 270 mm
- Pages: 520
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959059695
- Publisher: Spector Books
Perfect For: Architects, exhibition designers and curators interested in the meeting point of art and architecture, and in museum and display design.