Together!

The New Architecture of the Collective

03.06. – 10.09.2017

Housing is scarce – that much has become evident in the last few years. As real estate prices in big cities continue to skyrocket, conventional ideas of housing development

prove unable to meet demands. The reaction to these challenges has been a silent revolution in contemporary architecture – towards collective building and living. Us-

ing models, films, and walk-in displays, the exhibition »Together! The New Architec-ture of the Collective« addresses this global phenomenon by presenting a broad ar-

ray of collective building and living projects from Europe, Asia, and the United States. An overview of historical precedents for the current wave of collectives

demonstrates that the idea of collectivity has been a recurring theme in the history of architecture, from the reformist ideas of the nineteenth century to the hippies and

squatters of the twentieth who touted the slogan »Make love, not lofts«.

The exhibition begins with a look at the history of social housing ideals that mostly originated in a protest against the existing conditions. The presentation stresses this and refers to the urgency of the topic: a series of films shows examples of social unrest triggered by housing shortages. Protest placards provide information about historical attempts to respond to these challenges. These include the Phalanstères invented by Charles Fourier (1772–1837), the late-nineteenth-century Monte Verità colony in the Swiss part of the Ticino, the housing cooperatives of the 1920s, the autonomous community of Christiania in Copenhagen, and the Karthago cooperative in Zurich. Many of these ideas were closely related to the social shifts of their day; it is therefore no surprise that they are once more gaining currency as more and more people live outside the conventional nuclear family – be it as couples, single parents, singles, or elderly people living alone. For many, the idea of collective living offers an affordable remedy to urban isolation.

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The exhibition’s second section uses 21 large-scale models of contemporary housing experiments to create a fictitious city for visitors to explore. In reality these projects by architects including einszueins architektur, Heide & von Beckerath, Michael Maltzan Architecture, ON design partners, pool Archi-tekten, and Ryue Nishizawa may be found in cities as diverse as Berlin, Zurich, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Vienna. A closer look at the models reveals that the innovative thrust of this new collective architecture also extends to fundamental principles such as volume, façade, and materials: the specific challenges and limited resources confronting the architects give rise to a unique aesthetic. The context of the im-aginary city moreover shows that many of these projects blur the boundaries between living space and urban space, between private and public sphere. This becomes clear in the third section, where a full-scale model of what is known as a »cluster apart-ment« enables visitors to enter and experience the communal and private spaces that characterise this housing type. Background information – including floor plans – sheds light on the many forms that new collective lifestyles can take. The installation features a series of photographs by Daniel Burchard made especially for the exhibition. His photographic essays provide an insider’s look at eight projects from a variety of countries, documenting scenes from everyday life in the new collectives. This shows that the new collectives emerge as social laboratories not least because the digitalisation gives rise to new pos-sibilities of life/work organisation. How does the new architecture of the collective work in economic terms, which new challenges come with it, and how can innovative housing forms actually be realised? Answers to these questions are provided in case studies of the Sargfabrik in Vienna, Zwicky-Süd in Zurich, La Borda in Barcelona, R50 in Berlin, and the Apartments with a Small Restaurant in Tokyo. The section’s workspace setting inci-dentally highlights the new funding options arising from the close integration of public and private functions in many of these projects. At the Kalkbreite in Zurich, for example, approximately half the floor area is reserved for commercial and other non-residential uses including a cinema, a packaging-free supermarket, three restaurants and cafés, health consultancies, various offices, and a publicly accessi-ble courtyard with a playground. Projects like Kalkbreite show that non-profit collective housing experiments can thrive within, and actu-ally transform, the commercially driven real-estate market for the better. Grassroots movements such as Occupy have had a dramatic impact on the political landscape, just as the »sharing economy« is rev-olutionising the very idea of property ownership. This exhibition manifests how these ideas are chang-ing the way in which inhabitants and architects together conceive new forms of living which, beyond meeting individual needs, provide an answer to a central question of our time: how do we want to live together in the future? #VDMtogether

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Participating architects Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter (DK), CASA Architecten und Vrijburcht Stichting (NL), ifau und Jesko Fezer/Heide von Beckerath (DE), Hütten und Paläste Architekten (DE), Naruse Inokuma Architects (JP), Naka Architects’ Studio (JP), Studio mnm (JP), Osamu Nishida and Erika Nakagawa (JP), Ryue Nishi-zawa (JP), ON design partners (JP), Jinhee Park, SsD (KR), pool Architektur ZT (AT), gaupenraub +/- (AT), einszueins architektur (AT), Buol & Zünd (CH), Beat Rothen Architektur (CH), Müller Sigrist Archi-tekten (CH), pool Architekten (CH), Enzmann Fischer und Partner (CH), Schneider Studer Primas (CH), Lacol Cooperativa d’Arquitectes (ES), BKK-2 (AT), Silvia Carpaneto + fatkoehl architekten + BARarchi-tekten with Die Zusammenarbeiter (DE), Michael Maltzan Architecture (USA), Duplex Architekten (CH), Santiago Cirugeda of Recetas Urbanas (ES), all(zone) (TH).

Exhibition Catalogue

Together!

The New Architecture of the Collective

Editors: Mateo Kries, Ilka Ruby, Andreas Ruby,

Mathias Müller, Daniel Niggli

Softcover

23 x 30,2 cm, 352 pages

Approx. 443 mainly colour illustrations

ISBN: 978-3-945852-14-9

German retail price: 49,90€

»Together! The New Architecture of the Collective« presents an overview of contemporary collective housing projects from contexts as different as Europe, Asia, and the United States. The exhibition cat-alogue traces the history of this recent collective turn in housing back to the utopian residential devel-opments of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the first radical housing cooperative pro-jects of the 1920s. It tells the story of the various protest movements against housing shortages and real estate speculation in many urban centres since the 1960s. A series of visual essays by photographer Daniel Burchard gives the reader an introduction to everyday domestic life of eight contemporary housing projects in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan. Critical essays by Andreas Hofer, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Anna Puigjaner, Robert Temel, Yuma Shinohara, and the editors of this book analyze the search for the collective as the defining force in the develop-ment of housing from the beginnings of modernism until today. The catalogue has been designed by the studio Something Fantastic from Berlin.

TALKS / DISCUSSIONS / WORKSHOPS Together! How do we want to live? Andreas Ruby, Angelika Fitz, Kieran Long and Daniel Niggli /EM2N Architekten, OPENING TALK (EN) | 2 June 2017 6 pm, Buckminster Fuller Dome What exactly does communal living and building mean? How did this form of coexistence take shape and what are innovative examples? The exhibition opens with a discussion featuring the exhibition cu-rators --- Ilka and Andreas Ruby of Ruby Press and Daniel Niggli of the architecture studio EM2N --- as well as Angelika Fitz, director of the Architekturzentrum Vienna and Kieran Long, director of (ArkDes) Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design.

Free admission, registration: events@design-museum.de

Pier Vittorio Aureli --- Public or Private? TALK (EN) | 29 June 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum Collective architecture brings the public realm into the domestic sphere --- and considers residential spaces a public good. The renowned architect Pier Vittorio Aureli discusses with Andreas Ruby, curator of the exhibition. The conversation will be presented by Anh-Linh Ngo, editor of the magazine ARCH+. It is part of the series ARCH+ Features, which is initiated by Siedle. Free admission

Pascal Mory --- The Colours of Community TALK (EN) | 6 July 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum What is the significance of color in architecture? For Le Corbusier this was a lifelong preoccupation. His groundbreaking concept for collective living was implemented in multiple cities. In this talk, Pascal Mory, architect and contributor to the refurbishment of the »Unité d’Habitation«, addresses the com-munity-building role of color that many architects employ to this day.

Free admission

Anna Puigjaner --- Kitchenless City TALK (EN) | 27 July 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum The current housing crisis can be addressed using historic examples --- suggests Spanish architect Anna Puigjaner. Kitchens and gardens can be collectively used by many inhabitants. Her conviction has been realized in her proposal »Kitchenless City: Architectural Systems for Social Welfare«. Currently, Puigjaner is researching examples of collective living in Brazil, Sweden, Russia and Korea to derive lessons and possible solutions for future domestic architecture. In her talk, she will share these findings.

Free admission

Marco Clausen --- The Green City

TALK (DE) | 31 August 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum Urban gardens are green islands that bring life to vacant lots and former industrial sites. The trained historian Marco Clausen is co-founder of the Prinzessinnengärten (Princess Gardens) and Nachbar-schaftsakademie (Neighbourhood Academy) in Berlin. Situated on 6000 square metres in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, the pioneering project has attracted international attention since its found-ing in 2009. In this talk, Clausen shares his insights and discusses the potential of urban gardens for the social cohesion and sustainable future development of cities.

Free admission

Steff Fischer --- From »Zurich is burning« to »Zurich is booming« TALK (DE) | 7 September 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum In the 1980s, Steff Fischer was a squatter and part of the youth movement in Zurich. Today, he is an important player in the real estate market. He initiates alternative housing projects and creative strat-egies for urban development. Fischer speaks about the transformation of office buildings into residen-tial real estate or the new usage of temporarily vacant spaces as well as projects like the »Basislager«, a settlement of repurposed containers for creatives. Free admission

WORKSHOPS

Gardens as Communities --- Family Workshop

SPECIAL WORKSHOP (DE) | 17 June 2017 10 am – 4 pm, Vitra Design Museum Gardening in big cities has become increasingly popular --- especially if the garden is created and tended by an entire neighborhood. This workshop allows family members of all ages to help design the area in front of the museum as an outdoor extension of the exhibition.

Registration: info@design-museum.de, free admission

Together: The Big Picnic!

SPECIAL (DE) | 2 September 2017 10 am – 2 pm, Vitra Design Museum Because hardly anything creates a sense of connection like a shared meal, the area outside the Vitra Design Museum will be turned into a communal picnic site. Food brought by guests will be supple-mented on site with a range of fresh summery treats. The non-profit association Urban Agriculture Basel will also host a stand where young and old can learn more about the organic cultivation of edible crops in urban spaces. In addition, a workshop gives kids the opportunity to decorate their own clay pots for small balcony gardens.

Free admission

SPECIAL GUIDED TOURS

Let’s live together! CHILDREN’S TOUR (DE) | 11 June, 9 July, 6 August, 3 September 2017 2:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum In most cases, people live alone in an apartment or share a house as a family. Does it have to be like that? In this guided tour of the exhibition »Together! The New Architecture of the Collective« we get acquainted with new forms of communal living and contemplate how we will likely live together in the future. After the tour, we will create our own futuristic cities and homes. For children aged 6 to 12, € 7 per child, registration: info@design-museum.de Curator’s Tour --- »Together!«

WEDNESDAY MATINEE (DE) | 23 August 2017 10 am, Vitra Design Museum As a representative of the curatorial team, the architect Michaela Stolcova guides visitors through the exhibition and talks about new forms of communal living and building. She presents highly innovative examples of contemporary architecture as well as the underlying social and economic ideals. € 10 per person

Fact Sheet Title: Together! The New Architecture of the Collective

Curators: Ilka and Andreas Ruby; Daniel Niggli, Mathias Müller (EM2N)

Location: Vitra Design Museum

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79576 Weil am Rhein

Duration: 3 June – 10 September 2017

Opening: 2 June 2017, 6 pm

Opening Hours: daily, 10 am – 6 pm

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Image Overview

Together! The New Architecture of the Collective 03.06. – 10.09.2017 Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

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»Together! The New Architecture of the Collective«

© Vitra Design Museum, 2017

Designed by Something Fantastic, Berlin

02 Community pool in the housing project Hardturmstrasse, Kraftwerk1, Zurich Stücheli Architekten mit Bünzli Courvoisier, Zurich, 2001 © Andreas Hofer

03 Open air dinner, Siedlung Heizenholz, Kraftwerk1, Zu-rich Adrian Streich Architekten, Zurich, 2012 © Katrin Simonett/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017

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Moryama House, Tokyo

Office of Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, 2005

© Edmund Sumner/VIEW

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Moriyama House, Tokyo

Office of Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, 2005

© Dean Kaufman

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Moriyama House, Tokyo.

Office of Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, 2005

© Dean Kaufman

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LT Josai, Nagoya

Naruse Inokuma Architects, Tokyo, 2013

© Masao Nishikawa

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LT Josai, Nagoya Naruse Inokuma Architects, Tokyo, 2013 © Masao Nishikawa

09 LT Josai, Nagoya, 2013 Naruse Inokuma Architects, Tokyo © Masao Nishikawa

10 LT Josai, Nagoya Photo: Daniel Burchard

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House for Seven People, Tokyo studio mnm, Tokyo, 2013 © Sadao Hotta

12 Yokohama Apartment, Yokohama, 2009

Osamu Nishida + Erika Nakagawa

Tokyo. © Koichi Torimura

13 Apartments with a Small Restaurant, Tokyo, 2014 Naka Architects’ Studio © Naka Architects’ Studio

14 Songpa Micro-Housing, Seoul, 2014 Jinhee Park/SsD, New York/Seoul. © SsD

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Wohnprojekt Wien einszueins architektur, 2013 Photo: Hertha Hurnaus

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Courtyard of Sargfabrik, Wien

BKK-2, Vienna, 1992–96

© Stadt Wien MA 18 / R. Christanell

17 Swimming pool in the basement of Sargfabrik, Wien BKK-2, Vienna, 1992–96 © Hertha Hurnaus

18 Community kitchen at Sargfabrik, Wien BKK-2, Vienna, 1992–96 © Hertha Hurnaus

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Star Apartments, Los Angeles Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los Angeles, 2014 © Gabor Ekecs

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Library, Cooperative Kalkbreite, Zurich, 2014 Müller Sigrist Architekten © Müller Sigrist Architekten Photo: Martin Stollenwerk

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Justus van Effencomplex, Rotterdam, 1924

Michiel Brinkman, Rotterdam

© Raimund McClain

22 Mockup of the project Zollhaus, Zurich, 2015 Enzmann Fischer Partner AG © Enzmann Fischer Partner AG

23 Visualization of the project Zollhaus, Zurich Enzmann Fischer Partner AG, Zurich, 2015 © Enzmann Fischer Partner AG

24 Visualization of the project Zollhaus, Zurich Enzmann Fischer Partner AG, Zurich, 2015 © Enzmann Fischer Partner AG

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Haus J, Genossenschaft mehr als wohnen, Zurich pool Architekten, Zurich, 2014 © Niklaus Spoerri

26 Community space at Haus J, Genossenschaft mehr als wohnen, Zurich, 2014. pool Architekten, Zurich Photo: Niklaus Spoerri

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Genossenschaft mehr als Wohnen, Zurich Photo: Daniel Burchard

28 Spreefeld Berlin zusammenarbeiter / carpaneto / fat koehl / bar ar-chitekten, berlin

Photo: DaKa

29 Spreefeld Berlin zusammenarbeiter / carpaneto / fat koehl / bar architek-ten, berlin

Photo: Ute Zscharnt

30 Spreefeld Berlin zusammenarbeiter / carpaneto / fat koehl / bar ar-chitekten, berlin

Photo: Ute Zscharnt

31 The colony’s founder and guests practise eurythmics Monte Verità, Ascona (CH), nach 1904 Courtesy Fondazione Monte Verità.

32 Kommune 1, 1968 © Werner Bokelberg

33 Autonomous youth center/Autonomes Jugendzentrum (AJZ), Zurich, 1980–82 © KEYSTONE

34 Familistère de Guise, schoolchildren in the courtyard of the central building, 1890 © Collection Familistère de Guise

35 Le Corbusier, Unité d‘Habitation © Fondation Le Corbusier/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017

36 Wohnpark Alterlaa, Wien, 1973-85 Architect: Harry Glück et al. © Simon van Hal

37 Visualisierung des Projekts Agora Wohnen, Berlin, 2015 Architects: Hütten und Paläste © Frank Schönert + Nanni Grau/Hütten und Paläste

38 A »butterfly plan« with different floor plans of the Genossenschaft Kalkbreite, Zurich © Müller Sigrist Architekten

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Floor plan of a cluster flat with inhabitants, Haus A,

Genossenschaft mehr als wohnen, Zurich, 2015

Architects: Duplex Architekten

© Duplex Architekten

40 Moriyama House, Tokyo © Office of Ryue Nishizawa

41 Model of a collective city, 2017 Photo: Hannes Henz Architekturfotograf

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Model of a collective city, 2017

Photo: Hannes Henz Architekturfotograf

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