“An Attempt at One”: The Scenography of Architectural Reconstruction and the Emergence of Curatorial Research
ABSTRACT In the 1980s, numerous non-extant architectural exhibition pieces were reconstructed, often by curators seeking to metabolize the mediated and ephemeral history of modernist practices. This essay examines two examples commissioned by Harald Szeemann for the exhibition Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk (1983), in wh...