Архитектурный конкурс имени Чарльза Ренни Макинтоша
Конкурс приурочен к 150-летию со дня рождения шотландского архитектора Чарльза Ренни Макинтоша. Конкурсантам предстоит переосмыслить созданные им в 1900 году идеалистические проекты двух домов для художников. Задача в том, чтобы исследовать подход архитектора к проектированию и одновременно с этим приспособить его идеи к потребностям сегодняшнего дня.
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Following the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Mackintosh’s birth, the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society is launching an open, international architectural ideas competition.
Based on two hypothetical ‘ideal’ houses for artists, envisaged by Mackintosh in c.1900, the competition invites participants to contribute designs for a contemporary pair of houses that explore variations on a theme.
Mackintosh’s designs can be seen as a manifesto for the young architect, which he would later develop and realise at ‘Windyhill’ and ‘The Hill House’. These designs show remarkably unadorned buildings with elemental abstracted forms where harling (roughcast) is used to unify the composition into a cohesive whole. It is clear to see that Mackintosh is experimenting with a vernacular construction technique in a contemporary manner, suggesting a quest for a new articulation of architecture by his own hand.
Given that the ‘Artist’s Town House and Studio’ and its sister proposal “Artists House and Studio in the Country” were envisaged by Mackintosh just months prior to his marriage to Margaret Macdonald, they can be seen as a personal manifesto by the architect, imagining life with his muse. Indeed, when they were published in 1902, Hermann Muthesius remarked that the schemes ‘refer to the home desired by the artist couple, and thus have a singular interest’.
This competition will be an opportunity for participants to explore and evolve their own ‘manifestos’ of their architectural convictions, in a manner similar to that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
The competition ‘Twin Dwellings of Singular Interest’ seeks entries for contemporary reimaginings of Mackintosh’s Ideal House for an artist couple. Entrants will be required to research Mackintosh’s domestic designs as well as his work generally. However, submitted designs should reflect the requirements of modern contemporary life experienced in the 21st century.
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