"At the End of the Century"
One Hundred Years of Architecture
At MOCA The Geffen Contemporary
April 16 - September 24
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"At the End of the Century" At MOCA The Geffen Contemporary |
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You must see this exhibition....and more than once! The scope and the material assembled is amazing. Bravo Richard Koshalek and Elisabeth Smith.
The exhibition surveys the architectural terrain of the last century from the vantage point of the new millennium's beginning. It offers audiences an opportunity to reflect on the role architecture and urban planning play in our world. "At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture" aims to present such landmarks as emblematic of larger tendencies, movements, and directions that have shaped the twentieth century' architectural culture. Rather than foregrounding a series of singular architectural achievements, it positions them within a context of related works - built and unbuilt - and ideas, many of which are considerably lesser known even to the architecture community. In so doing, the project seeks to consider the historical framework within which such works were conceived and to emphasize their cultural, social, political, and economic underpinnings as well as their formal and technological ones. While the geographic range of "The End of the Century" is global and its temporal expanse vast, the project does not purport to be exhaustive nor does it include documentation of all of the canonical works or "masterpieces" that might be expected in such an expansive survey. Instead, it posits a chronologically-organized sequence of episodes, movements, and thematic developments that from our vantage point at the end of this century are of compelling significance and interest. |
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