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Ida Brottmann HansenBára Bjarnadóttir

early 1920s Europe

Palladium opens

Le Corbusiers’ Towards an Architecture is published

interesting statement of his: the house is a machine for living in

Test drive (text drive).The material will be lazer cut stickers of handwriting. The stickers have mild glue, are easily portable and easily adaptable to the architecture.

Corbusier himself was active in the 1920s, at the same time the Palladium was built. Actually he was writing his book of essays Toward an Architecture during the early 1920s where he was ex-ploring the concept of modern architecture. Apparently was very influential.(Then you mention time in your Bornholm mail, and I like using time as a factor.) By talking about machines I think of this: http://www.eltak.is/upphla-did/myndir/fullsizeimage20041111092842_57.jpg sort of an assembly line, the bodies being the items moved from one place to the other.

The text will be a friendly pondering about architecture and the body. Starting with the connection in time between Corbusier and Palladium, wandering off

and then ending up relating the building to Corbusiers’ statement about the house being a machine. Above are fractions of our conversation through e-mail that

sparked the idea for the work.

Palladium = machine

experienced in 2 ways

1: You see a text on the ceiling. One word under the other. As you read your head bends backward and you walk in the direction of following words. While reading about the connection between machine and architecture you are led through a specific path in Palladium. In the end of the text the idea of how architecture can control our bodies (like a factoryline, maybe) is mentioned.

2: You see people in a peculiar body stance following a line of text. They all follow the same paths while walking, head backwards.

starting point

ending point