{"id":7820,"date":"2021-03-05T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T09:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.galeriedowntown.com\/homes-to-live-in-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T09:56:12","slug":"homes-to-live-in-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galeriedowntown.com\/en\/homes-to-live-in-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes to live in: Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the House of tomorrow ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Over the centuries, some architects took interest in imagining architectures that don\u2019t follow any particular style or tradition. In Antiquity, Daedalus \u2013 inventor and architect of Greek mythology \u2013 had already created an architecture with perfect geometry, but with a very specific interior arrangement. Today, other architects like Junya Ishigami create unique universes and invent spaces that appear as a new model for living. We are therefore moving towards a more utopian architecture.<\/p>\n

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This research has been carried out before, it is not a 20th century invention! In France, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (architect, urban planner and French utopian) was a real precursor in the 18th century. He draws on ancient architecture, which he then adapts to the 18th century one, thus leading to the appearance of the famous neoclassical style.<\/p>\n

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At the beginning of the 20th century, other new forms for houses appeared. This is the case of the Einstein Tower built by the architect Erich Mendelsohn, in Potsdam in 1914. Its unique design refers to the dynamism and the avant-garde of German expressionism at the time!<\/p>\n

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In the very prolific post-war period, the cinema puts ahead this dreamy \u201chouse of tomorrow\u201d \u2026 Jacques Tati in his film \u00ab My Uncle \u00bb describes a wealthy uncle, the business owner who ordered a modern house, different from the others and with elaborate gadgets that impress the neighborhood!<\/p>\n

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But this kind of modern house also exists at this time, outside the cinema! This is particularly the case for Andr\u00e9 Bloc\u2019s house in Meudon, which is almost completely open from the outside. He founded and directed the \u00ab Espace \u00bb movement which aimed to combine Art with new architectural and urban techniques of the time!<\/p>\n

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\u2026 Let\u2019s continue with Andr\u00e9 Bloc, one of the key figures in the \u201cutopian\u201d architecture, with his Habitacles projects which he designed from the early 60s. The outdoor space is sculptural, and the interior space is usable. From this concept will appear an \u201cHabitacle\u201d house built in 1964 on the Spanish coast.<\/p>\n

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This new architecture, which developed in France during the 60s and 70s, also appeared in the form of so-called organic houses. We then meet architects like Jacques Cou\u00eblle, Pascal Ha\u00fcsermann, Pierre Sz\u00e9k\u00e9ly, Daniel Grataloup\u2026<\/p>\n

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At the same time, another model of architectural research appeared which was nothing like the classical model. Advocated by the collaboration between Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, founders of the Architecture Principe group, the volumes take a specific form which stem from Paul Virilio\u2019s interest in the specific architecture of blockhouses!<\/p>\n

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\u2026 Let\u2019s not forget the children who thought very quickly about the house of their dreams!<\/p>\n

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With the 1960s and 1970s, groups of international architects, such as Archizoom in Italy and Archigram in England, worked on a completely new concept of \u00ab capsule \u00bb houses. Within this revolting society, the urban world needs to be completely rethought!<\/p>\n

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From the Sputnik<\/em> space capsule a whole body of research on the house as a housing capsule was born in the 1960s, which would then be reduced to minimum habitat. From the \u201cMaison tout en plastique<\/em>\u201d by Ionel Schein, presented in 1956 at the Salon des Arts M\u00e9nagers to the \u201cCapsule Home<\/em>\u201d by Warren Chalk (from the Archigram group), in 1964, without forgetting the \u201cBulles<\/em>\u201d houses by Jean-Benjamin Maneval, the concept of house is revolutionized! Hans Walter M\u00fcller\u2019s inflatable capsule houses are also very innovative in this same spirit. In this movement of very revolutionary architecture, Ionel Schein did not fail to recall: \u00ab\u00a0we were illegals (\u2026)<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0.<\/p>\n

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\u2026 And to end this long list, here is a contemporary architecture, the Lemoine<\/em> house, an experimental architecture built by Rem Koolhass in 1998, in Floirac (France). With its internal platform adjustable on 3 levels, the owner can modulate the space as he wishes, according to his desires \u2026<\/p>\n

Pour conclure !<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2026 Whether a house is in the middle of nowhere,<\/p>\n

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\u2026 whether it is in the midst of a town,<\/p>\n

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\u2026 whether it\u2019s experimental,<\/p>\n

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…Or it is perfect,<\/p>\n

\u2026 finally, they always impress us!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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