Curating Architecture

Curating Architecture is a research initiative set up by the Curating Programme, Department of Art, at Goldsmiths College. Its aim is to interrogate ideas proposed by recent and recurring influences of architecture on curatorial practice through the joint development of critical discourse and curatorial commissioning processes.

Curating Architecture starts with the premise that the routines of artists and architects share many practical and theoretical concerns and have entwined histories. It has long been the case that a wide range of artists are influenced by contemporary developments in the architectural field, and that architects look to the conceptual and methodological strategies of artists for ideas, the ‘expanded field’ of practice, described firstly by Rosalind Krauss in relation to sculpture and more recently by Anthony Vidler in relation to architecture, becoming a utopian site for the presentation of objects and scenarios for public consumption.