In his article ‘Out of Site/In Plain View: On the Origins and Actuality of the Architecture Exhibition’, architectural historian and curator Barry Bergdoll starts by asking the obvious question: ‘What does it mean to exhibit architecture? Isn’t architecture, once it is built, always already on display?’1 Despite always being on display, however, architecture escapes being exhibited. Because we cannot exhibit architecture in the way an artist can exhibit a painting or a sculpture.
