Intuitive Architecture
Schets of Schim
21 April - 14 October 2007
Exhibition at the Museum Dr. Guislain in Co-operation with the Flemish
Architecture Institute and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt
/ Main, in the course of the T:mefestival Ghent
Dr. Guislain Museum
Jozef Guislainstraat 43
9000 Ghent
tel: +32(0)9/216.35.95
fax: +32(0)9/216.35.35
info@museumdrguislain.be
www.museumdrguislain.be
Tue-Sat, 10:00-18:00
Sun 13:00-17:00, Mon closed, Tickets EUR 5 adults/ EUR 2,50
children +12 / entrance free -12
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How rational is architecture? Is it not, even in
the hands of the most renowned architects, subject to irrational actions
and intuition? Intuitive Architecture is an exhibition on the intuitive,
the irrational and the subconscious in architecture. The exhibition
draws inspiration from the reading of La vie des Abeilles, La vie
des Termites and La vie des Fourmis, dilettante, scientific books
by the Ghent Nobel-prize winner in literature Maurice Maeterlinck,
in which the author tries to reveal a relation between the instinctive,
social conduct of insects – like the construction of termite
hills – and the conscious / subconscious actions of humans.
The exhibition presents architectural constructions and urban development
plans in drawings and scale-models created by outsider artists alongside
sketches by international architects.
The sketches in question are the designers’ first drafts that
lay down the rough outlines of a building or a site. They remind us
of the urge to get a hold on our living environment and the structure
of our space. The drawings give unmistakable evidence of the subconscious
and irrational elements involved in creation. |
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