Ernö Goldfinger and 2 Willow Road: inhabiting the modern utopia Hampstead, London
1-3 Willow Road, houses built by Ernö Goldfinger facing Hampstead Heath in London, stand out as a paradigmatic example of Modernist British Architecture. Displacing traditional notions and ideals of a modernist house and of modernist inhabitation, what they ‘are’ goes somehow against to what they re...
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| description | 1-3 Willow Road, houses built by Ernö Goldfinger facing Hampstead Heath in London, stand out as a paradigmatic example of Modernist British Architecture. Displacing traditional notions and ideals of a modernist house and of modernist inhabitation, what they ‘are’ goes somehow against to what they represent. Domesticity as well as concepts such as private and public, or exterior and interior are dislocated. Considered as one of the most distinguished manifestations of Modernity, in 2 Willow Road Modernism is suggested, but also disrupted by postmodern gestures. In a lifelong process that fills the space with collected objects, modernity is replaced by a more bourgeois environment: the atmosphere experienced in the interior is that of an inhabited collage closer to a nineteenth century dwelling. The heterogeneity of random order and arbitrary juxtapositions is, for this case, an aesthetic procedure that most likely legitimates Goldfinger’s beliefs and understanding of what life is. What 2 Willow Road actually testifies is about the romantic utopia of Modern inhabitation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7f5da1cfbd8248fea6401ec9b80f1ca02022-12-21T19:56:30ZengUniversidad de Los AndesDearq2011-31882215-969X2010-12-01078295Ernö Goldfinger and 2 Willow Road: inhabiting the modern utopia Hampstead, LondonCatalina Mejía1-3 Willow Road, houses built by Ernö Goldfinger facing Hampstead Heath in London, stand out as a paradigmatic example of Modernist British Architecture. Displacing traditional notions and ideals of a modernist house and of modernist inhabitation, what they ‘are’ goes somehow against to what they represent. Domesticity as well as concepts such as private and public, or exterior and interior are dislocated. Considered as one of the most distinguished manifestations of Modernity, in 2 Willow Road Modernism is suggested, but also disrupted by postmodern gestures. In a lifelong process that fills the space with collected objects, modernity is replaced by a more bourgeois environment: the atmosphere experienced in the interior is that of an inhabited collage closer to a nineteenth century dwelling. The heterogeneity of random order and arbitrary juxtapositions is, for this case, an aesthetic procedure that most likely legitimates Goldfinger’s beliefs and understanding of what life is. What 2 Willow Road actually testifies is about the romantic utopia of Modern inhabitation.http://dearq.uniandes.edu.co/sites/default/files/articles/attachments/dearq_07_-_07_mejia.pdfErnö Goldfingermodernismdomesticityinhabitation |
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| title | Ernö Goldfinger and 2 Willow Road: inhabiting the modern utopia Hampstead, London |
| title_full | Ernö Goldfinger and 2 Willow Road: inhabiting the modern utopia Hampstead, London |
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| title_short | Ernö Goldfinger and 2 Willow Road: inhabiting the modern utopia Hampstead, London |
| title_sort | erno goldfinger and 2 willow road inhabiting the modern utopia hampstead london |
| topic | Ernö Goldfinger modernism domesticity inhabitation |
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