Comprehensible architecture
Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale Zurich, group exhibition. 2018
ORGANIZATION
Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale Zürich
FSB Franz Schneider Brakel GmbH + Co KG, Brakel, Germany
DESCRIPTION
Guest exhibition by FSB
27.04.2018 - 06.06.2018
The exhibition "Comprehensible Architecture" takes a look at the interaction between architecture and one of its smallest designable components: the door handle. Door handles are architecture in miniature and reflect the creative attitude of their designers in terms of form and use.
The exhibition focuses on the door handle designed by Walter Gropius and his office manager Adolf Meyer, one of the design icons of the 20th century. From a sculptural door handle by Le Corbusier for a processional door of the Notre-Dame-du-Haut chapel in Ronchamps to an unadorned handle plate by Sep Ruf for the Chancellor's Bungalow in Bonn, the exhibition shows the range of different trends that followed the Bauhaus.
Using the example of the door handle, the exhibition not only illustrates the cultural history of three centuries, but also the associated design and construction concepts of architects and designers and their preferences for certain materials and material combinations. Examples by Schinkel, Mies van der Rohe, Kollhoff, Ingenhoven, Chipperfield, Graft, Kazi and many others are shown. (Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale Zurich / FSB Franz Schneider Brakel GmbH + Co KG)
CONTRIBUTION
The FSB 1254 model in fine matt brushed and polished stainless steel was shown.
PHOTOS
Fawad Kazi Architekt GmbH, FSB Franz Schneider Brakel GmbH + Co KG
GRAPHICS
Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale Zurich
PUBLICATION
Comprehensible architecture - The importance of door handles in architecture, published by FSB in collaboration with the International Building Academy Berlin and the German Werkbund, 2018, pp. 122-123
