The Archival Exhibition: Elizabeth Diller In Conversation with Mark Wasiuta

Join us Wednesday, September 30 at 6:30 pm for a book launch and conversation on the occasion of the new book The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, 2006–2016 by Mark Wasiuta, published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. The book gathers thirteen exhibitions from a decade of curatorial research at Columbia GSAPP’s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, examining the archival exhibition as a mode and method of architecture. Across these projects, architecture appears as a field coordinated by documents, articulating the archive as a shifting process rather than a stable repository.

Wasiuta will be joined in conversation by Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, exploring the role of the document in their work. The conversation will be introduced by José Esparza Chong Cuy, Executive Director of Storefront, who will then join the discussion. Copies of the publication will be available for sale.

Mark Wasiuta is Co-Director of the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program at Columbia University’s GSAPP. He works on problems of media, environment, and technology in postwar architecture and its experimental practices. He is currently curating and producing Early Warning Architecture, the official representation for Canada at the 20^th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

Wasiuta is co-author and co-editor of Rifat Chadirj: Building Index, Dan Graham’s New Jersey, and The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery. Forthcoming publications include Vision Machines: Frederick Kiesler’s Audiovisual Architecture.

Elizabeth Diller is a partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an interdisciplinary design studio based in New York. The practice established its identity through self-generated conceptual art and architecture installations before reaching international prominence with large-scale cultural and civic projects, including the High Line (designed in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf) and the transformation of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. The studio’s work continues to address the changing role of institutions and the future of cities. Alongside Ricardo Scofidio, Diller has been recognized with the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship awarded in the field of architecture. She is a professor of architectural design at Princeton University.