House Tour Views of the Unfurnished Interior |
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| Editor:
| Jasper, Adam |
| ISBN: | 978-3-03860-114-2 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2019 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $64.95 |
Book Description:
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When we view photographs of unfurnished interiors, what we see looks almost nothing like the homes we ultimately inhabit: blank, labyrinthine spaces, featureless rooms with walls that meet at odd angles and exits that lead nowhere. These strange and seamless spaces make up a peculiar genre of representation: views of the unfurnished interior in architects' online portfolios.
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More DescriptionWhen we view photographs of unfurnished interiors, what we see looks almost nothing like the homes we ultimately inhabit: blank, labyrinthine spaces, featureless rooms with walls that meet at odd angles and exits that lead nowhere. These strange and seamless spaces make up a peculiar genre of representation: views of the unfurnished interior in architects' online portfolios.
House Tour, which accompanied Switzerland's award-winning contribution to the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, is a playful yet thought-provoking celebration of this genre that is both familiar and not. In a series of essays, the contributors--anthropologists, art and architectural historians, and architectural theorists--consider the ubiquitous contemporary apartment, the void we inhabit with its standard measurements that reflect contemporary architecture's key constraints. A striking visual journey, House Tour takes as its starting point almost three hundred photographs of such unfurnished interiors designed by leading Swiss architecture firms.