In Hannes Meyers Pockets
Exhibition at the Venice Biennale of 2014.
For this exhibition at the Venice Biennale we worked on a controversial architect of the modern movement. Hannes Meyer gives a definition of the building project that is not only based on the relationship between function and aesthetics but on its direct relationship with human existence. For him, the function diagram and the economic program became the determining principles of modern building project, and the task of creating categories became operative to define fundamental aspects of life from which the inhabitants could take part in a constant redefinition of self.
The program Hannes Meyer wrote down for the dwelling consisted of 12 fundamental points. The 12 points are:
sex life
sleeping habits
pets
gardening
personal hygiene
weather protection
hygiene in the home
car maintenance
cooking
heating
exposure to the sun
services
We believe he named these points not to limit the scope of architecture and life, but demarcate fundamental generators of life. Hannes Meyers 12 points does not suggest a deprived and impoverished world, but rather a possibility of giving form to the uprooted life of the modern subject by industrialization. The program Hannes Meyer wrote down for the dwelling consisted of 12 fundamental points. We believe he named these points not to limit the scope of architecture and life, but demarcate fundamental generators of life. Hannes Meyers 12 points does not suggest a deprived and impoverished world, but rather a possibility of giving form to the uprooted life of the modern subject by industrialization.
