Zürich, Mon Amour

Offering a parallel reading of the current “housing crisis,” Zürich, Mon Amour rejects the idea that the problem is purely economic. The exhibition argues that the crisis also has a cultural and imaginative dimension: by setting up an alternative laboratory, the exhibition implies that any response depends on architecture’s capacity to question convention and offer other forms of generosity within domestic space.

By suspending the distinction between the local and the distant, the realised and the hypothetical, the Architecture Centre recentres attention on typology as a starting point for research and design. Drawing on a selection of more than 200 floor plans supported by images of their interiors, visitors are invited to respond critically to different ways of organising domestic space. Rather than presenting definitive answers, the exhibition seeks to reopen the debate around forms of housing, asserting precision and imagination as possible tools for addressing one of the major political and urban challenges of the present.

Curated by fala
Scientific advisors Studiolo, Continentale
Exhibition design Studiolo