2024-11-21T12:59:42-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149999936/friedrich-kiesler-architect-artist-visionary-at-martin-gropius-bau-tells-rather-than-shows-the-architect-s-oeuvre Alison Hugill 2017-03-31T12:08:00-04:00 >2018-07-09T19:00:26-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9k/9k566fg26ox6ehid.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>"Factual communicability is privileged over the immersive experience, and architecture is presented as a set of instances&mdash;shown through models, drawings, photographs&mdash;rather than a process," the Canadian curator Carson Chan told me in a recent&nbsp;<a href="http://www.on-curating.org/issue-31-reader/curating-architecture-the-architecture-of-estrangement.html#.WNUgxCOLQy5" target="_blank">conversation</a>.&nbsp;"Exhibited through representation, the architectural work more easily assumes the mantle of single authorship, where <em>in situ</em>, the same thought is almost impossible. In this sense, estrangement is built into the exhibition of architecture."</p>