summaery2017: Projects

Stealing rooms. The digital reconstruction of modernism.

Project information

submitted by

Centre for Documentary Architecture

Co-Authors

Alexander Böckel, María Diego Fernnández-San Julián, Justina Dziama, Guangrui Fan, Henry Hadathia, King Hong Ho, Lena Mingers, Anna Luise Schubert, Barbora Tothova, Chananthorn Vinitwatanakhun, Amelie Wegner

Mentors

Prof. Dr. Ines Weizman, Zsófia Kelm, Anna Luise Schubert, Amelie Wegner, Martin Pohl, Simon Heidenreich, Mehran Mojtahedzadeh

Faculty / Section:
Architecture and Urbanism

Degree programme:
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
Media Art and Design - Study programme Integrated International Media Art and Design Studies (IIMDS) (Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) and Master of Arts (M.A.))

Type of project presentation

Exhibition

Semester

Winter semester 2016/17

Exhibition Location / Event Location
  • Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8 - Hauptgebäude / main building
    (108)

attractive to children

Participation in the Bauhaus Essentials and the GRAFE Kreativpreis 2024

Participation in the Science Night of the Faculty Civil Engineering

Links

https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/arc...
http://documentary-architecture....

Project description online

This exhibition presents a series of fragments – »object-biographies« – of interior spaces designed by Adolf Loos in Vienna between 1910 and 1929.
Their assembly within the space of the gallery re-enacts Loos’ Wohnungswanderungen (apartment walks) – with which the architect conducted highly didactic tours concentrating not on the entirety of his projects and its meaning – but rather on the materials that were brought together to compose them as well as on their origins and the architectural details that hold them together.
The room assembled here is not a reconstruction though, rather it is an »architectural fantasy« assembled from »digital samples« photogramatically scanned from different buildings, reproduced in 1:1 scale and animated through VR technologies and sound. Each detail or material composition can then become a starting point for different narratives: interviews with former and contemporary inhabitants, archivists, preservationists and trustees spring out of physical elements, reflecting on the history and afterlife of the architect’s work.
Put together, the room recomposes the trajectories of object-biographies in a process of endless migration.


Email: ines.weizman[at]uni-weimar.de

Exhibition Location / Event Location