HAA 298p

Displaying Latin America
Patricio del Real
Wednesday 3-5:45pm
Exhibitions have been integral to the promotion of modern architecture. They helped imagine, construct and order a modern world under the hegemony of modernism. This graduate seminar explores the theory and practice of exhibiting architecture. It focuses on ‘Latin America’ as a historical category imagined through national and international magazines, pavilions and museum exhibitions in the 20th Century. Our aim is to study how the ‘exhibitionary complex’—to use Tony Bennett’s characterization—engaged modern architecture to help render visible a place called ‘Latin America.’