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143 pages : 25 cm, \"Exhibitions have long played a crucial role in defining disciplinary histories. This volume examines the impact of eleven groundbreaking architecture and design exhibitions held between 1956 and 2006, revealing the different ways they have shaped how these disciplines are understood and practiced today. Featuring written and photographic descriptions of the shows and essays from noted curators, scholars, critics, designers, and artists, As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History explores the multifaceted ways in which exhibitions have reflected on contemporary dilemmas and opened up new processes and ways of working. Providing a fresh perspective on some of the most important exhibitions of the 20th century from America, Europe, and Japan, including This Is Tomorrow, Expo '70, and Massive Change, this book offers a new framework for thinking about how exhibitions can function as a transformative force in the field of architecture and design\"--, Includes bibliographical references and index, Foreword / James Rondeau -- Taking positions: an incomplete history of architecture and design exhibitions / Zoë Ryan : The challenges of architecture and design exhibitions ; A brief prehistory of exhibitions ; Advancing ideas: eleven exhibitions -- Case studies / Lindsay Garbutt : This is tomorrow: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1956 ; IBM Pavilion, New York World's Fair, New York, 1964 ; Expo '70, Osaka, 1970 ; Italy: the new domestic landscape, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1972 ; Man transforms, Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, New York, 1976 ; Memphis, Arc '74 Showroom, Salone del Mobile, Milan, 1981 ; Droog, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 1993; Salone del Mobile, Milan, 1993 ; Mutant material in contemporary design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1995; Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 1996; Living Design Center, Tokyo, 1996; National Gallery of Modern Art, Prague, 1997; Groninger Museum, Groninger, 1997 ;…