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Contemporary architecture exhibitions constitute an adventurous domain involving architects, artists, curators and scholars in various roles. Not only do architecture exhibitions mediate designs and research, they advance particular auteur approaches to the very practice of exhibiting. This article presents a hands-on study of selected exhibition authors’ means and strategies in making architecture exhibitions. The basis for comparison in this research-by-design project is a brief to display student work in the context of an architecture department.Contemporary architecture exhibitions constitute an adventurous domain involving architects, artists, curators and scholars in various roles. Not only do architecture exhibitions mediate designs and research, they advance particular auteur approaches to the very practice of exhibiting. This article presents a hands-on study of selected exhibition authors’ means and strategies in making architecture exhibitions. The basis for comparison in this research-by-design project is a brief to display student work in the context of an architecture department.A