In the forty years since the first iteration of Venice Architecture
Biennale, the field of architecture has seen a remarkable change in the
role played by exhibition-making. While architecture and display have
long been intertwined practices, a rapid proliferation of large-scale
perennial exhibitions--particularly in the twenty-first century--has
resulted in the biennial / triennial becoming an integral part of our
discipline, a new geography of itinerant display that has profoundly
altered the contours of architectural thought. Between format, space,
and content, what are the various agencies and effects of these events?
Biennials / Triennials asks these questions and others of a range of
curatorial agents--including After Belonging Agency, Beatriz Colomina
and Mark Wigley, Sarah Herda, Adrian Lahoud, Ippolito Pestellini, and
Andre Tavares--and visits crucial sites of recent exhibitions that
reveal what is at stake in the newfound ubiquity of the architectural
-ennial.