Old things, historic things, smelly dirty things, all the things that were considered the very opposite of "contemporary", have suddenly irrupted forcefully into architecture and art, blurring their boundaries. This book takes stock of the emerging g...

Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been confl ated with urgent discussions of how material...