In the Autumn Semester 2020, the Keynote Lectures investigated contemporary formats of architectural (re-)presentation in exhibitions. Architecture exhibitions often leave the impression that architects are the only people responsible for a building project. Instead, the discipline of architecture is one negotiated by many stakeholders. This reality is only sometimes addressed in architecture exhibitions.

A building is always a product by many narratives, may it be the initial idea of the client, the first design of the architect, the implementation of a concept for the statics, the building constraints, the crafting of the furniture by the carpenter, the calculation of the building costs by the project manager, of the water and electricity by the building technologist or the eventual adaptation by the user. For this reason, the students participating in the Keynote Lectures reflected on possibilities of exhibiting architecture by including the network behind a building project. The outcome was presented in a curated, virtual exhibition.

Six curators with different backgrounds and vantage points in exhibition making each directed a one-day workshop session. They conveyed their experiences and expertise in lectures and coaching sessions, each of which then has built on earlier ones, focusing on different aspects of making an exhibition.

Fr, 18 Sept. 2020
Stephan Trüby, Stuttgart – ‚Elements of Architecture‘
Heike Biechteler – ‚Anatomy Lessons‘

Fr, 25 Sept. 2020
Fredi Fischli & Niels Olsen, ETH Zurich  – ‚How to find curatorial concepts‘

Fr, 16 Oct. 2020
Joanna Warsza, Berlin – ‚How to involve others‘

Fr, 13 Nov. 2020
Ludwig Engel, Berlin – ‚Making sense – what do I take home with me?‘

Fr, 20 Nov. 2020
Asli Ciçek, Brussels – ‚About displaying‘

Fr, 4 Dec. 2020
Nicola von Senger, Zurich – ‚The show must go on‘

Student works

Gelebtes Bauprogramm

Fabian Huber, Nils Oppliger, Thomas Herger, Werner Weibel

Dienstgebäude am Bellevue

Stefanie Hug, Olivia Steiner, Rebecca Baer