Why would an institution that collects, curates, and exhibits architecture produce a book called The Museum Is Not Enough? Not enough for what? Not enough to educate? To entertain? To change the world?
Architecture museums and departments have always been compromised by their inability to exhibit their actual subject. Art museums show art, film museums show films, but architecture museums show mostly drawings and models of actual architecture. Debates over style or aesthetics can be illustrated by representations and are important to cultural discourse, but the new questions being imposed on architecture today—particularly social, technological, and environmental—are not easily shown in a museum context. So what is the architecture museum’s role?
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