Architecture exhibitions are special tasks for curatorial practice because they rely on representations of the design, planning or images of completed buildings and usually cannot actually show finished work. But the architecture exhibition can become an independent architectural manifesto if it takes a reflective stance on dominant practices and presents new approaches to the discipline. The basis for a critical practice is a methodical process that takes into account both the spatial conditions of the exhibition venue and the demands of the visitors from the outset.
Andres Lepik is Professor of Architecture History and curatorial studies at the Technical University Munich (TUM) and director of the Architecture Museum. He studied Art History and wrote a PhD dissertation on architectural models in the Renaissance. In 1994 he was named curator at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, where he organized Renzo Piano (2000) and Content. Rem Koolhaas and AMO/OMA in 2003. From 2007 to 2011 he was a curator in the Architecture and Design Department of MoMA (New York), where he curated, notably the exhibition Small Scale, Big Change. New Architectures of Social Engagement. In 2011/12 he was Loeb-Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Since 2012, in Munich, he has presented numerous exhibitions, including AFRITECTURE. Building Social Change, (2013/14), Lina Bo Bardi 100 (2015), Francis Kéré. Radically Simple (2016/17) and, currently on view, Visual Investigations. Between Advocacy, Journalism and Law (2024). Lepik has published numerous books and articles and lectured in universities worldwide.
