Model Room Work - 20th Century Houses

Model Room Work
20th Century Houses

112 architectural models
Sammlung Lehrstuhl Kurrent
Architecture Museum of the Technical University
Munich, Germany.

Model of Lovell "Beach House" by R.M. Schindler

Lovell "Beach House"
Photo by Julius Shulman in 1926
More Julius Shulman photographs

On March 4, 2000 the exhibition "Model Room Work" will open in the Round Tower in Copenhagen revealing, for the first time in Scandinavia, an extraordinary collection of architectural models of some of the most important architectural masterpieces of the 20th Century.

The 112 models on display are all of single family houses - a concentratation of the 20th's century vision of "The Ideal Home".
The designs are by world reknown architects; Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Adolf Loos, Rudolph Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, and also by a selection of regionally based legends of architecture like Hans Dšllgast and Lois Welzenbacher.

The models stem from the "Sammlung Lehrstuhl Kurrent" created under the Professorial chair of Friedrich Kurrent of the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
The models have all been built by students of architecture under the guidance of a carpenter in the traditional scale of 1:33. This scale is just large enough to allow one to peer in through the door and window openings and gain a sense of the sequence of rooms inside.
The exhibition is about rooms, about the rooms within the models, the room of the exhibition, and the universe of ideas roomed by these works in relation to one another. It is meant to set focus on an overlooked aspect of modernism - a "composite" modernism rooted in local building traditions with more manneristic features.

A book is also scheduled for release illustrating through period photographs how the rooms inside these masterpieces of architecture were actually furnished and inhabited as houses, better yet as homes.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of lectures about the works on display will be held at the Danish Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in the beginning of March.

Organized by the group "Model Rum V¾rk"
Cooordinator: Peter Thule Kristensen
Regitze Hess,
Lars Bech Jensen
Hans Gram PriemŽ
Peer Zinglersen

"Model Rum Work" has been made possible through support from Bergiafonden, Dir. E. Danielsen og Hustrus Fond, København Kommunes Kulturelle Udviklingspulje, Statens Kunstfond, Margot og Thorvald Dreyers Fond, NCC Danmark A/S and Hindenburgs Eftf. A/S.

March 4 - April 24, 2000
The Round Tower Copenhagen





		EXHIBITION		Features
		Model Room Work 20th Century Houses 112 architectural models Sammlung Lehrstuhl Kurrent Architecture Museum of the Technical University Munich, Germany. Model of Lovell "Beach House" by R.M. Schindler Lovell "Beach House" Photo by Julius Shulman in 1926 More Julius Shulman photographs On March 4, 2000 the exhibition "Model Room Work" will open in the Round Tower in Copenhagen revealing, for the first time in Scandinavia, an extraordinary collection of architectural models of some of the most important architectural masterpieces of the 20th Century. The 112 models on display are all of single family houses - a concentratation of the 20th's century vision of "The Ideal Home". The designs are by world reknown architects; Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Adolf Loos, Rudolph Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, and also by a selection of regionally based legends of architecture like Hans Dšllgast and Lois Welzenbacher. The models stem from the "Sammlung Lehrstuhl Kurrent" created under the Professorial chair of Friedrich Kurrent of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. The models have all been built by students of architecture under the guidance of a carpenter in the traditional scale of 1:33. This scale is just large enough to allow one to peer in through the door and window openings and gain a sense of the sequence of rooms inside. The exhibition is about rooms, about the rooms within the models, the room of the exhibition, and the universe of ideas roomed by these works in relation to one another. It is meant to set focus on an overlooked aspect of modernism - a "composite" modernism rooted in local building traditions with more manneristic features. A book is also scheduled for release illustrating through period photographs how the rooms inside these masterpieces of architecture were actually furnished and inhabited as houses, better yet as homes. In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of lectures about the works on display will be held at the Danish Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in the beginning of March. Organized by the group "Model Rum V¾rk" Cooordinator: Peter Thule Kristensen Regitze Hess, Lars Bech Jensen Hans Gram PriemŽ Peer Zinglersen "Model Rum Work" has been made possible through support from Bergiafonden, Dir. E. Danielsen og Hustrus Fond, København Kommunes Kulturelle Udviklingspulje, Statens Kunstfond, Margot og Thorvald Dreyers Fond, NCC Danmark A/S and Hindenburgs Eftf. A/S. March 4 - April 24, 2000 The Round Tower Copenhagen