"Dream House"
2002-07-19 until 2002-08-25
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery
Wellington, , NZ

Six Wellington architects are invited to design their 'dream house'. Beyond this the brief is open... The house could be a past, present or future project the participating architects have been or are involved with. It could be a house they have always dreamed about designing but because of commercial constraints have been prevented from realising. Or it could be an imaginary house designed to a fictional brief that the architect writes-such a brief might engage with notions about site, time, whose dream the house is imagined for.

Architects will be encouraged to give thought to the presentation of designs and could approach the invitation to exhibiting in a gallery environment as an opportunity to stretch the design and its presentation beyond the usual parameters of commercial practice. Models and drawings would be well suited to the intimate scale of the Hirschfeld Gallery. Other possibilities include projection, digital images. Architects may choose to focus on the conceptual nature of the design in its final presentation, or on an essential aspect of the design rather than representing the home in its entirety.

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