Title & Author:

House tour : views of the unfurnished interior / Adam Jasper (ed.) ; a project by Alessandro Bosshard [and 3 others] ; Authors: Ariell Ahearn [and 15 others].

Publication:

Zürich : Park Books, [2018]

Description:

167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"This publication is produced to accompany the 2018 exhibition titled 'Svizerra 240: House Tour', which takes place from May 26 to November 24, 2018 at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
White lies: bell curves in the bell jar / Francesca Hughes -- Then add colour / Nicholas de Monchaux -- Framing and deframing / Georges Teyssot -- Space "in itself": notes on the unfurnished interior / Martin Steinmann -- Contemporary Swiss housing: the space experiment / Christophe Joud and Lorraine Beaudoin -- The Cornice (a recent history) / Emma Jones -- White space: an interior monologue / Sandy Isenstadt -- Almost nothing / Michael Hill -- The banality of 240cm / John Macarthur -- Custom vanity / Claire Lehmann -- Antagonistic exchange / Charles Rice -- Off white, please / Hans-Christian Dany -- Real estate fiction / Marija Marić -- Modern gers / Ariell Ahearn and Stephen Lezak -- Svizzera 240: house tour / Matthew van der Ploeg, Ani Vihervaara, Li Tavor, and Alessandro Bosshard.

Summary:

240 cm is the standard distance between floor and ceiling in residential buildings: the height of the void we inhabit. In its precision, and its emptiness, the number reflects contemporary interior architecture's condition. In a series of essays, 'House Tour' explores an interior that is both familiar and seemingly uninhabited, critically celebrating a peculiar genre of representation, the architectural photography of an unfurnished interior. The authors - including anthropologists, architecture theorists and art historians - consider the ubiquitous contemporary apartment from an eye-level view, foregrounding the appearance and material presence of the architectural shell. They start out from photographs of unfurnished interiors found on the websites of leading Swiss architecture firms. They have a blank, labyrinthine appearance, with walls intersecting at oblique angles and exits seemingly leading nowhere, and show featureless rooms with seamless trans.

ISBN:

9783038601142 (pbk.)
3038601144 (pbk.)

Subject:

Interior architecture Exhibitions.
Architectural photography Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Exhibitions.
Architecture intérieure Expositions.
Photographie d'architecture Expositions.
Architecture 21e siècle Expositions.
Architectural photography.
Architecture, Modern.
Interior architecture.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Jasper, Adam, editor.
Ahearn, Ariell, writer of supplementary textual content.
International Architectural Exhibition (16th : 2018 : Venice, Italy)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302580
Call No.: BIB 248760
Status: Available