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Exhibiting baukultur A building is like a story – we have to read the words and understand them in their context. The better we can do this, the more productively we can advocate baukultur. Exhibitions can display buildings – their models, the history of their development and construction. Different periods of architectural history can be illustrated, architectural theory and its discourses can be illuminated, and “best practice examples” can underline and substantiate current debates. Exhibiting architecture always requires the aid of drawings, models and photography. But this alone is not enough in order to experience a building – architecture is the art of creating a three-dimensional space in which the observer has to actively engage. Only if people move through this space and experience themselves within it, can they understand and feel the architecture. This is why the M:AI Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurkunst NRW does not display its exhibitions in a white cube, but in exciting and real architectural spaces. The same is true of the exhibition 1910-2010+. Dynamik und Wandel der Städte am Rhein, which will be shown at the former administrative building of the German Reich Railway on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne. It’s a place which tells just one of the many stories of transformation in our cities. The exhibition will illustrate one hundred years of urban development along the Rhine, but will also include current plans and future challenges.
“Knowledge of architectural history contributes to finding solutions for contemporary problems in order to apply these for the benefit of baukultur. Exhibiting architecture therefore means: presenting outstanding buildings and feats of engineering as well as urban development strategies from the past and the present. It also includes the œuvre of leading builders and pioneering engineers, as well as placing current debates and challenges in their historical, social and political contexts.” Dr. Ursula Kleefisch-Jobst
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