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Sekulic, Dubravka, 2025, Book, Curatorial design: A place between Lenz Press, Milan, Italy. ISBN 979-12-80579-61-4

Abstract or Description:

The future of architecture lies in the curatorial approach. This is the thesis put forward by architect Wilfried Kuehn and theorist Dubravka Sekulić in their book Curatorial Design: A Place Between, which brings together contributions from more than 30 authors working in the fields of architecture, art, and curatorial knowledge and practice. Architectural design and the curatorial share a non-disciplinary background, and aim to assemble diverse forms of knowledge rather than specializing. Inherently transdisciplinary, then, they are at odds with the increasing division of labor in all fields of knowledge and practice. In the face of professionalization, which limits our capacity to intervene comprehensively, design and the curatorial challenge specialization and produce relational knowledge. They intend to create an in-between place, as together they form a novel practice that—in combining heterogenous forms of knowledge—takes center stage rather than serving as a moderator or mediator of sorts. What unites them is the assertion of a relational form, the autonomy of which consists precisely in teasing out relations between different elements. What happens to architectural design when it consciously enters a relationship with the curatorial? The book is aimed at practitioners and educators in the field of architecture and design, as well as curators and exhibition makers. It contains three photo series by Armin Linke that accompany the three sections of the book: “Public School for Architecture”, “Total Reconstruction,” and “Designing for Co-Habitation.”

Contributors:
Contribution
Name
RCA ID
Editor
Sekulic, Dubravka
2010030041061.0
Editor
Kuehn, Wilfried
School or Centre: School of Design
Funders: This research was funded mainly by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [10.55776/AR428] and was hosted and co-financed by the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). Additional funding by the Royal College of Art
Date Deposited: 06 Feb 2026 10:35
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2026 10:35
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/6826
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