Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths

7 November 2018 – 7 April 2019, CCA, Montreal

Curated by Sylvia Lavin and Sarah Hearne

A counter-reading of postmodern architecture, the exhibition Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths challenges the beliefs that supported the myth of architecture as an autonomous discipline with accounts of empirically describable architectural activity.

Curated by Sylvia Lavin, the exhibition suggests a reading of the postmodern movement in architecture based not on the images and buildings it produced but on the material evidence that was suppressed in order to maintain the myth of architecture as an irreducibly autonomous and artistic practice—the myth of ‘architecture itself.’

Drawing Matter lent the two drawings below, by Aldo Rossi and Hans Hollein, for the exhibition.