MAN transFORMS: Die Dokumente
Chair of Prof. Stalder
Thursday, 3 November 2016 to Friday, 9 December 2016
Location: ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, gta Ausstellungsraum
The exhibition MAN transFORMS: The Documents explores Hans Hollein’s and Lisa Taylor’s exhibition MAN transFORMS, which was the opening show of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design in New York in 1976. It will be the first exhibition to trace the development of MAN transFORMS on the basis of original documents – from the first outline proposal to the detailed design. Contributions developed specifically for the exhibition by Hans Hollein as well as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Arata Isozaki, Richard Meier, Ettore Sottsass and Oswald Mathias Ungers map the spectrum of the heterogenous and changing discipline of architecture around 1976 and point towards key problems of the forming currents of Postmodernism. The exhibition MAN transFORMS: The Documents makes visible how Hollein reoriented the museum and drew the attention to the transformation of the museum from a place of a collection display into a total environment, where the physical experience supersedes the mediation of historical contexts. Moreover, MAN transFORMS played a catalytic role for the development and discursive processing of architectural ideas and demonstrated to what extent the medium of the exhibition can serve as a tool for theory formation.
An exhibition by Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder and Samuel Korn, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich in collaboration with gta Exhibitions. The exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Hollein family.
Photos: Stefan Altenburger and Martin Stollenwerk
