Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention was the third and final in a series of exhibitions curated by Greg Lynn, an architect based in Los Angeles, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The first was a blockbuster display of four projects by Lynn's mentors and heroes; the second was a more eclectic set of six projects by Lynn's buddies.1 The third exhibition resembled the second in that it presented a diverse set of projects—fifteen, spanning twenty years—by architects roughly Lynn's age.2 A perceptive curatorial move, however, shifted the third show into a different register. Rather than clustering materials by project, the exhibition spread a jumble from all fifteen projects—drawings, models, animations, renderings, and everything in between—throughout the gallery space, with little discernible order (Figure 1). Labels with architects’ names were there if one looked for them, but they were unobtrusive enough that, looking up from...

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