White Lies
WHITE LIES In the summer of 1927, the groundbreaking housing exhibition Weißenhofsiedlung opened in Stuttgart.The exhibition was the first of its kind, bringing together a new generation of functionalist architects,and it aimed to be a display of the new architectural style, also known as Neues Bauen. The prototype village in Stuttgart would prove to be one of the most influential architectural sites of the 20th century, and it has left its permanent mark on modern architecture. The exhibition’s artistic director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe had two demands of the 16 architects that he had handpicked: flat roofs and white or light facades. As the construction dust settled, and the exhibition opened after a hectic building period of 21 weeks, it could be seen that only a third of the architects had built white facades. A key feature of a number of the houses was the use of various bright colours on the unornamented facades. Mies van der Rohe, who had put forward the demand, built his own apartment building in a light shade of pink. When the exhibition was to be documented for the best-selling catalogue, the photographs of the buildings were rendered in the black-and-white typical of the time. The photographs were shot in bright sunlight in the middle of the day, emphasizing contrast. In spite of the colourful origin, the facades appeared in the catalogue pages in brilliant white, and created an image that is inextricably linked to functionalist architecture to this day: flat roofs and white facades.
«BAU & WOHNUNG», PAGE 34-35, 2015 Original exhibition catalogue from the housing exhibition Weißenhofsiedlung (1927). Photographically reproduced in its entirety by means of standardized colour reproduction
PAINTED WALL, INSTALLATION VIEW, AKADEMIROMMET, KUNSTNERNES HUS, 2014 Painted colour field on wall, painted in the facade colour from Mies van der Rohes apartment house in the housing exhibition Weißenhofsiedlung, original exhibition catalogue, text.
PAINTED WALL, INSTALLATION VIEW, AKADEMIROMMET, KUNSTNERNES HUS, 2014 (DETAIL)
PAINTED WALL, INSTALLATION VIEW, AKADEMIROMMET, KUNSTNERNES HUS, 2014 (DETAIL)
TRIANGULAR PRISM, HAND-TURNED FROM SOLID BIRCH, SPRAY PAINTED IN THE ASSUMED 1927 FACADE COLOUR (ROOF TERRACE COLUMN) FROM HOUSE 14-15 BY LE CORBUSIER & PIERRE JEANNERET AT WEISSENHOF-SIEDLUNG, STUTTGART. BASED ON COLOUR ANALYSIS CONDUCTED IN 1982 IN WATERCOLOUR, REPRODUCED DIGITALLY IN ADOBE RGB (1998) IN APRIL 2015 AND CONVERTED TO NCS COLOUR Solid birch, spray paint
CYLINDER, HAND-TURNED FROM SOLID BIRCH, SPRAY PAINTED IN THE ASSUMED 1927 FACADE COLOUR (NORTH FACADE, GARDEN) FROM HOUSE 14-15 BY LE CORBUSIER & PIERRE JEANNERET AT WEISSENHOF-SIEDLUNG, STUTTGART. BASED ON COLOUR ANALYSIS CONDUCTED IN 1982 IN WATERCOLOUR, REPRODUCED DIGITALLY IN ADOBE RGB (1998) IN APRIL 2015 AND CONVERTED TO NCS COLOUR Solid birch, spray paint
SPHERE, HAND-TURNED FROM SOLID BIRCH, SPRAY PAINTED IN THE ASSUMED 1927 FACADE COLOUR (WEST WALL) FROM HOUSE 1-4 BY MIES VAN DER ROHE AT WEISSENHOFSIEDLUNG, STUTTGART. BASED ON COLOUR ANALYSIS CONDUCTED IN 1982 IN WATERCOLOUR, REPRODUCED DIGITALLY IN ADOBE RGB (1998) IN APRIL 2015 AND CONVERTED TO NCS COLOUR Solid birch, spray paint
INSTALLATION VIEW, KUNSTNERNES HUS, 2015, DETAIL Hand-turned wooden sculptures, spray painted in the original facade colours from the housing exhibition Weißenhofsiedlung, 1927.
INSTALLATION VIEW, KUNSTNERNES HUS, 2015
WEIßENHOFSIEDLUNG, HOUSE 28-30 BY MART STAM (1927). NORTH-WEST FACADE, RESTORATION COMPLETED 1987, PHOTOGRAPHED IN STUTTGART APRIL 2015. 100 x 126 cm
WEIßENHOFSIEDLUNG, HOUSE 14-15 BY LE CORBUSIER & PIERRE JEANNERET (1927). NORTH FACADE (GARDEN), RESTORATION COMPLETED 1987, PHOTOGRAPHED IN STUTTGART APRIL 2015. 100 x 126 cm
INSTALLATION VIEW, KUNSTNERNES HUS, 2015
INSTALLATION VIEW, KUNSTNERNES HUS, 2015
«BAU & WOHNUNG», PAGE 30-31, 2015 Original exhibition catalogue from the housing exhibition Weißenhofsiedlung (1927). Photographically reproduced in its entirety by means of standardized colour reproduction
«BAU & WOHNUNG», PAGE 80-81, 2015 Original exhibition catalogue from the housing exhibition Weißenhofsiedlung (1927). Photographically reproduced in its entirety by means of standardized colour reproduction
«BAU & WOHNUNG», 2015 Original exhibition catalogue from the housing exhibition Weißenhofsiedlung (1927). Photographically reproduced in its entirety by means of standardized colour reproduction
INSTALLATION VIEW, FOTOGALLERIET (FORMAT), MALMO 2015
INSTALLATION VIEW, FOTOGALLERIET (FORMAT), MALMO 2015
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