The Influence of Temporality: Exhibiting Architecture and the Prospect of Immediacy of Discipline at the Venice Biennale
The Influence of Temporality: Exhibiting Architecture and the Prospect of Immediacy of Discipline at the Venice Biennale

Summary/Abstract: The state of architecture being exhibited and (re)exposed through formats of publicdisplay does not present the central framework of architectural production. However, thecondition of exhibiting architecture is opening a set of valuable prospects for the discipline – itcreates a specific temporal form of displacement for architecture in which a multifaceted setof connotations and views of this discipline is being provoked. The exhibition and its structureare understood here primarily as a point in time; a specific temporal form with its own tacticsof appearance that make the notion of contemporaneity occur.Taking the context of the Venice Biennale of Architecture as the most prominent platform forglobal overview of architectural practice, this paper will reflect on today’s relevance of architectureas an aesthetic discipline related not only to designing (projection and production ofarchitecture), but to its post-production (exhibiting architecture) as well. Claiming that architecturalcontemporaneity is motivated primarily by the urge for actuality – setting the newemerges as the formative property of the discipline.This paper aims to prove that the specific temporal form of exhibition reveals a proposition forregenerating the competency of architectural discipline. This proposition about being presentmanifests itself as a prospect for the immediacy of the discipline, as the qualitative evidence ofarchitecture’s immanency to continuously reconstitute and actualize, maintaining the passageto keep its influence in shaping our world.

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