Are We Postmodern?: The Architectural Exhibition in Late Twentieth-Century France

Abstract

In this thesis, examines four architectural exhibitions in 1980s Paris: Architectures en France: Modernité, post-modernité (1981), La modernité ou l’esprit du temps (1982), La modernité, un projet inachevé (1982) and Les Immateriaux (1985). It investigates the effects of postmodernism, and how the modern/postmodern debates played out in the sphere of the architectural exhibition. It is organized into three case studies, which each examine a facet of the exhibition: history, self-fashioning, and media.