1. A Mad Dinner in Reagan’s War Room
Hans Ulrich Obrist with Brendan McGetrick

2. Motivation and Architecture
“Production of reality conversations.” (70)
“Exhibitions that don’t have an inventive display feature are doomed to oblivion.” (70-71)
“The idea was really to develop the exhibition as a city.” (71)
“Buildings without content are meaningless shapes.” (73)
“I was surprised by a certain lack of memory in the architecture world.” (74)
Working conversations, new projects grow out of conversations. Either an artist of architecture needed to create a display feature. In art, artist will talk about older artists that inspired them (not in the architectural world.

3. “That’s the future: building a new city as a curatorial project.” (80)
China’s Ghost Cities
Cities on the Move
“That’s the future: building a new city as a curatorial project.” (80)

4. Memory and Targeting
Q: What accounts for lack of memory in architecture?
Simple answer: Fewer good architecture museums than art museums
Schools targeting the specifics of learning
China has more and more architects and artists working together
Coffee table books

5. Chapter Title
“There’s this famous story that, when Ronald Reagan was elected into the White House, he arrived on the very first day and was completely lost because he couldn’t find the war room.” (81)