James Taylor-Foster
Selected writing 2012 – 2020
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  • 2018
James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2012 – 2020
  • Architecture on Display

In this series of salon talks, Sir John Soane’s Museum invite curators and thinkers to reflect on the meanings, implications and strategies behind the display of architecture.

Fig 1. Larousse’s Taxonomy of Knots (1907)

Architecture, and the discourse which envelops it, has tied itself into a Gordian Knot of self-representation and reflection. While an ever larger number of curators of architecture step into the limelight, we see one central question emerging with renewed urgency: what does it mean to curate architecture? How should architects, curators and spectators conceive the material of architectural curating: drawings, photographs and models, or ideas, systems and strategies? In what ways can a growing international cohort of curators of architecture negotiate the differing demands of the cultural institutions and organisations in which their practice frequently takes place, those of the profession and of society more broadly? Who is, could, or should be, the audience? Ultimately, what is the purpose of curating architecture?

Contributors

  • Florence Ostende — Barbican Centre, London
  • Marina Otero Verzier — Het Nieuwe Instituut; After Belonging Agency
  • Owen Hopkins — Senior Curator of Exhibitions and Education, Soane
  • Marie Coulon — Betts Project, London
  • Joseph Grima — Design Academy Eindhoven; Ideas City (New Museum)
  • Giulia Foscari — AA Museum Lab, Architectural Association
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James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
  • CuratorialI.
  • ProjectsII.
  • PublicationsIII.
  • SpeakingIV.
  • WritingV.
I.Curatorial
  • WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD2020
  • Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron2019
  • Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex and Cruising Culture2019
  • Yarny, Medusa och en elefant: The Craft of Swedish Game Design2019
  • Sigurd Lewerentz: Freestanding2018
  • Space Popular: Value in the Virtual2018
  • Boxen at ArkDes2018
  • You Are Not Alone2017
  • In Therapy2016
  • Keeping Up Appearances2015
II.Projects
  • Körper2019
  • Architecture on Display2018
  • Planetary Protocols2018
  • The Stones of Venice: A Kimono2017
  • Misunderstandings (A Reliquary)2016
III.Publications
  • Living on Water2017
  • Faith2016
  • Elemental Living2016
  • Abundance2016
  • Clairvoyance2015
  • People, Place, Purpose2015
  • Defiance2015
  • Monet: Colour in Impressionism2012
IV.Speaking
  • Modevisningar är den flyktigaste formen av arkitektur2018
  • Attention, Accelerated2017
  • Exhibition Models2017
  • Conversation with Kenneth Frampton2017
  • Interview: “Profil” (RTV4 Slovenia)2017
V.Writing
  • Making Believe with Designers Charlap Hyman & Herrero2019
  • Foreword: On the Manifesto2019
  • On Practical Futurology2019
  • 〰️ To Speak As If In Capital Letters2019
  • Baltoscandia: A Complex Utopia2018
  • 〰️ The Cruising Pavilion: Gay Sex, Architecture and Cruising Cultures2018
  • 〰️ A Weak Monument2018
  • An Architect’s Diary of Virgil Abloh’s First Louis Vuitton Show2018
  • 〰️ The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied. — A Rearview Review2018
  • 〰️ Virgil Abloh, Editor in Brief2018
  • Sigurd Lewerentz: Villa Edstrand2018
  • 〰️ On Liquid Modernity2017
  • 〰️ #003399, #FFCC00; The Meaning of a Flag2017
  • Pillars of Society: “Jantelagen”2017
  • Exhibiting the Postmodern2017
  • Future Architecture and the Idea of Europe2017
  • Domains of Influence2017
  • Concrete Mountain2017
  • Ingress: Black Rock City2017
  • In Dialogue With Gravity2017
  • Rem, Redacted2016
  • Media States, Or The State of Media2016
  • A Piece of England to Call One’s Own2016
  • Upon This Rock (I Will Build My Church)2016
  • The Design of the Species2016
  • Venice Isn’t Sinking, It’s Flooding2016
James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2012 – 2020
Projects
  • Architecture on Display 2018
  • at Sir John Soane's Museum with Owen Hopkins
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In this series of salon talks, Sir John Soane’s Museum invite curators and thinkers to reflect on the meanings, implications and strategies behind the display of architecture.

Fig 1. Larousse’s Taxonomy of Knots (1907)

Architecture, and the discourse which envelops it, has tied itself into a Gordian Knot of self-representation and reflection. While an ever larger number of curators of architecture step into the limelight, we see one central question emerging with renewed urgency: what does it mean to curate architecture? How should architects, curators and spectators conceive the material of architectural curating: drawings, photographs and models, or ideas, systems and strategies? In what ways can a growing international cohort of curators of architecture negotiate the differing demands of the cultural institutions and organisations in which their practice frequently takes place, those of the profession and of society more broadly? Who is, could, or should be, the audience? Ultimately, what is the purpose of curating architecture?

Contributors

  • Florence Ostende — Barbican Centre, London
  • Marina Otero Verzier — Het Nieuwe Instituut; After Belonging Agency
  • Owen Hopkins — Senior Curator of Exhibitions and Education, Soane
  • Marie Coulon — Betts Project, London
  • Joseph Grima — Design Academy Eindhoven; Ideas City (New Museum)
  • Giulia Foscari — AA Museum Lab, Architectural Association
  • James Taylor-Foster
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