This Was Tomorrow – Reinventing Architecture 1954 –1978

This was Tomorrow. Reinventing Architecture 1953-1978 at the Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel (Photo Christian Kahl, Courtesy of S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum)

S AM – Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Basel, Switzerland

13th May – 08 April 2016

Curated by Markus Lähteenmäki, Manuel Montenegro & Nicholas Olsberg

As the eleventh installation in their ‘Spatial Positions’ Series, the Swiss Architecture Museum presented ‘This Was Tomorrow’, using material from the Drawing Matter archive to interrogate the architectural mood post-war.

The exhibition explored the period 1953 to 1978 in order to re-evaluate the work done after the second world war. Through these sketches and plans, it demonstrated what co-curator Markus Lähteenmäki described as ‘a shift from the functional to the emotional’. It traced this change through twelve episodes, following the variations in attitude and response by other architects.

Manuel Montenegro, Curatorial sketch for *This was Tomorrow*.

For an extended commentary on this exhibition see this post.