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LIVING Frontiers of Architecture III-IV

Cases: Russia, the Roma, India
Three ‘case stories’ in Living rounded off the individual themes. They dipped into the current projects that related to special places where social or political factors create a basis for ways of thinking about home and architecture, and which have been selected against the background of their very different and realistic relationships with the concept of ‘living’.

Case I: ‘Russia – from collectivism to individualism’ has been curated by Bart Goldhoorn and was about the multi-storey building as the preferred dwelling type from the Stalinist period until today and the architectural consequences for construction in Russia and ‘mass housing’ as a concept in the world in general.

Case II: ‘Roma – architecture and identity’ dealt with the Roma people and their highly varied living conditions, and how they express their cultural identity and status by building ‘clan palaces’ in Romania and Moldova. The Roma section has been curated by T.A.M.A., Gabi Scardi and Maria Papadimitriou.

Case III: ‘India’ – presented Cybermohalla Hub, an installation by Hirsch & Müller- Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller. Cybermohalla Hub constitutes a digital laboratory – an organically growing institution that supplies alternative practices to a housing area by functioning as a cultural centre, school, studio and gallery. The exhibition showed the process that the drawing office initiated after the forced relocation of a neighbourhood in New Delhi. At the Louisiana, the exhibition linked up with the process through a workshop that will result in a book project.

Installations especially created for the Louisiana
Four large installations included in the exhibition have been designed specifically for Living, and each in its own way embodies the themes of the exhibition. As an introduction the Belgian artist Arne Quinze has created an outdoor installation, My Home My House My Stilt House, a metaphor for the exhibition which on the one hand involves the central anthropological concepts of the exhibition and on the other reflects the first theme, The Dream.

The famous Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto exemplifies his visions of Cell/Network in three specific Louisiana installations: Louisiana Tower, Louisiana Cloud and Louisiana Glass Forest. Sou Fujimoto primarily experiments with new communication strategies related to new types of housing structures. The architect distinguishes between nest and cave, applied respectively to defined, functionally determined architecture and open, rough architecture where the place challenges human beings to investigate and appropriate the setting through their own creativity.

With their new multi-storey building in Manhattan in New York, West 57 (in progress), the Danish Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) presents its proposal for new ways of linking dwelling with people. West 57 can be described as a hybrid between the European tenement block and the traditional skyscraper. Several other projects from the Danish architects are included in the exhibition.

In a specifically Nordic idiom using the four elements earth, fire, water and air, the architectural office Rintala Eggertsson Architects has created the installation Wish you were here?, which examines the issues involved in staging a ‘home’ as well as a cultural identity and the feeling of ‘home’.

Sponsor

The exhibition LIVING: Frontiers of Architecture III-IV is supported by Realdania, which is the sponsor of Louisianas architecture exhibitions.

Share your LIVING

How do you live? When do you feel at home? Share your photos with us and everybody else in the Flickr group You, Us and Them LIVING and have your photos displayed in the exhibition.

LIVING summer films

Films to the LIVING exhibition are shown in the cinema found in the museums West Wing Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 July - 25 August at 11:30 a.m., 3:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
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Catalogue

The exhibition catalogue Frontiers of Architecture III-IV – Living includes a preface by the director of the Louisiana Museum, Poul Erik Tøjner, and the curator of the exhibition, Kjeld Kjeldsen, as well as the articles “An exclamation mark that tells me I exist – an anthropological introduction to living” by Mark Vacher, “Cell Block, Egospheres, Self-containers” by Peter Sloterdijk, “Pollen Architecture and Pollen Cities” by Yann Moulier Boutang, as well as “Archipelagos and Pavilions” by Joseph Grima. It also features the poem “Living” by Morten Søndergaard and brief introductory texts to themes and presentations of works in the exhibition. Cover image by Patrick Roddie.
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