ModelingMuseums - 2nd International Architectural Modelfestiva

The 2010 Architectural Model Festival investigates the relationship of designer practices and cultural infrastructure. Museums and art institutions have been at the forefront of recent urban development programs, establishing new nodes in the global network of cities. This trend has also shifted the role of such establishments from sites representing static national and local identities to open and activist public platforms inviting discourses on the cultures and identities of modern democracies. The main topics of the festival explore this process through introducing current issues of institutions and their architecture, and by raising internationally new, so far undeveloped issues. These themes also develop links between shared discourses of the architectural model as a genre and the museum as a platform. The festival is a biennial event of KÉK-Contemporary Architecture Center. web: http://kek.org.hu/modelfest2/en