Curating Architecture in the Expanded Field of Historic Preservation: 1:1 Models and In Situ Interventions

Contemporary architecture exhibitions might contain solutions to challenges in preserving the built environment. Architects and curators increasingly experiment with alternative materializations of architecture in life-size models, with displaced time-worn building fragments, and with temporary interventions into sites and buildings.

This postdoctoral research project (funded with a FWO fellowship) investigates what approaches and strategies can be learned from these experimental practices to face contemporary problems in preservation.

• Tactically ambiguous performance - Krefeld (Robbrecht en Daem architecten)
• Denaturalizing life-size displays of architecture - Rotterdam (Angelidakis)
• On the art / architecture of reframing an industrial site - Gent (Rotor)