Dogma - Rooms
tentoonstelling
open Wed-Sun 2 pm – 7 pm and until 10 pm on performance evenings / closed Mon-Tue / open on bank holidays / see overview below for precise dates and times
In ‘Rooms’, the architectural firm Dogma examines the domestic space. While the architect Louis Kahn regarded the room as being the core essence of architecture, the writer Virginia Woolf stated in 1929 that in that period for a woman to have ‘a room of one’s own’ was tantamount to her adopting a critical attitude towards the patriarchal logic of the domestic space. The shape of the room subtly expresses the ways in which individuals are separated from each other and defined as people, with the accompanying associations of gender, race and class. With the aid of texts and drawings, Dogma offers a concise historical overview of the architecture of the room.
The exhibition consists of two different approaches: 'The Room of One’s Own' focuses on the history and usage of the private room; whilst 'Loveless’ sketches out the history of the minimum dwelling. Both of these approaches call the architecture of the domestic space into question, beginning with its most basic element: the room.
In ‘Rooms’, the architectural firm Dogma examines the domestic space. While the architect Louis Kahn regarded the room as being the core essence of architecture, the writer Virginia Woolf stated in 1929 that in that period for a woman to have ‘a room of one’s own’ was tantamount to her adopting a critical attitude towards the patriarchal logic of the domestic space. The shape of the room subtly expresses the ways in which individuals are separated from each other and defined as people, with the accompanying associations of gender, race and class. With the aid of texts and drawings, Dogma offers a concise historical overview of the architecture of the room.
The exhibition consists of two different approaches: 'The Room of One’s Own' focuses on the history and usage of the private room; whilst 'Loveless’ sketches out the history of the minimum dwelling. Both of these approaches call the architecture of the domestic space into question, beginning with its most basic element: the room.