A new type of architecture exhibition Empathies between Mackintosh and Holl in Glasgow

摘要

The Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined exhibition at the Royal Academy (RA) (arq 18.1, pp. 85-87) was refreshing. It set out to be so and, as far as I could see, succeeded. Its ambition was to redefine the presentation and content of an architecture exhibition. In the teacher's and student's guide available free with entry (and at a nominal cost to others), the RA set out their purpose: 'a new type of architecture exhibition [...] an approach that highlights not the functional but the experiential aspects of architecture, it features the work of seven of the world's leading contemporary architectural practices'. These practices, each of whom contributed installation pieces set within the Beaux-Arts galleries of the RA, were Grafton Architects (Ireland), Diebedo Francis Kere (Burkina Faso and Germany), Kengo Kuma (Japan), Li Xiaodong (China), Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Chile), Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura (Portugal).