Architecture in the Art Market: The Max Protetch Gallery

Kauffman, Jordan

Abstract

During the 1970s and 1980s, new networks of galleries, collectors, and institutions arose that focused on architectural representations. These networks were integral to the emergence of architectural drawings as primary objects of interest, as they shifted the general perception of architectural drawings from useful objects to aesthetic ones. This essay examines the Max Protetch Gallery in New York, and the network that developed around it, and their role in the shift. Their promotion of contemporary and historical architectural drawings and the gallery’s involvement with architectural archives were significant for their impact on rethinking the boundaries of architectural discourse and practice, as well as architectural history.1

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Sep 20, 2016
• Publication Date: Jul 2, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 1, 2024
• Journal: Journal of Architectural Education
• Print ISSN: 1046-4883
• Electronic ISSN: 1531-314X
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 257-268
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2016.1197674
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/31897227
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10464883.2016.1197674