Open House: Experience of Space - Softcover

Edited By Simon Lamunière

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3858818852 ISBN 13: 9783858818850

Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2022

Synopsis

• The phenomenon of tiny houses fascinates many people and is currently trending in various media
• Large migratory movements from poor to rich countries create an urgent demand for temporary housing in many places
• The book offers much needed substantial contribution to an international debate that often is superficial and driven by fantasies and lifestyle trends in rich countries
• Text in English and French

Open House discusses the topic of temporary housing in architecture, art, design and humanitarian aid. The phenomenon of tiny houses fascinates and is currently trending in various media. In times of large migratory movements from poor to rich countries, there is also an urgent demand for temporary housing in many places.

Eighteen international authors explore the intentions behind such constructions, their underlying principles and the lifestyle they convey. Their contributions reveal how these concepts relate to the very notion of habitat, to space, to pragmatic criteria, as well as to the time in which they are elaborated. Moreover, addresses various issues of individual housing through the featured original installations, and spatial experiments.

Open House is published in conjunction with a two-year research project and an open-air exhibition of the same title in Geneva in summer 2022. Book and exhibition comprise around 40 designs by artists, architects, designers, architecture schools and research institutions, as well as humanitarian organisations, such as Andrea Zittel, EPFL Laboratoire ALICE, Global Shelter Cluster, Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich, Jean Prouvé, John Armleder, Kengo Kuma, Kerim Seiler, Matti Suuronen, Maurizio Cattelan and Philippe Parreno, the UNHCR, and others.

Text in English and French.

About this title

About the Author

Simon Lamunière is a curator based in Geneva and director of the Open House project and exhibition in 2021/22. His previous engagements include the Domaine du Muy (Le Muy, France, 2014-2016), the Neon Parallax (Geneva, 2006-2013), Art Unlimited art fair (Basel, 2000-2011), the 11th Swiss sculpture exhibition Utopics (Biel/Bienne, 2009), the documenta X website (1997), and the Centre pour l'Image contemporaine (Geneva, 1992-2004).

From the Back Cover

Open House discusses the topic of temporary housing in architecture, art, design and humanitarian aid, featuring work by distinguished international architects and artists, such as Andrea Zittel, Gramazio Kohler Research, Jean Prouve, John Armleder, Kengo Kuma, Kerim Seiler etc. Text in English and French.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858818852
• ISBN 13: 9783858818850
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336