OVEREXPOSED ARCHITECTURE. TWENTY YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITIONS (2000-2020)

Overexposed Architecture is a survey of 21st-century architecture exhibitions (2000-2020). It is the result of a three-year research project of the same name conducted by Roberto Gigliotti at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. The research proceeds from the assumption that if architecture exhibitions were once only a reference to something else, they are now the referent, whose traces have become more important than the event itself. What are these traces? What, in fact, do architecture exhibitions produce today? The book articulates a series of tentative answers through thematic chapters'Promises, Spaces, Images, Transgressions, Transformations'each comprising a critical essay and a sequence of notable events accompanied by ample illustrations. A critical introduction and a series of apparatuses complete the investigation with an abacus of over 200 exhibitions thematically and chronologically organized, an extensive scientific bibliography, and the transcriptions of a series of conversations that took place during the research project, constituting original material from authoritative voices in the field. Roberto Gigliotti is Associate Professor of Interior and Exhibit Design in the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.