Following the film screening E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea, the VAi and De Cinema are organising a workshop on 3 March with Beatrice Minger (director of the movie E.1027), Florencia Fernandez Cardoso (architectural historian) and Hülya Ertas (curator VAi). The workshop will explore new methodologies to tell stories otherwise.
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Architectural history not only reflects on past events but also defines the commonly accepted narratives for the future. Looking at history with a critical lens today teaches us that the commonly accepted realities have actually been constructed narratives, rather than mere facts.
The underrepresentation of women architects has mostly been framed as a reflection of the existing social order. While this is partly true as women were rarely included within professional spheres as a whole, there have also been some patriarchal mechanisms within the professional field of architecture itself that reinforce even further this wider social order.
The movie E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea tells the story of making and leaving a house. It also shows how Le Corbusier appropriated the architectural design of Eileen Gray, and marked her design with his name in architectural culture. The fiction/documentary is an attempt to undo this “violent act” of appropriation. The case of Eileen Gray is particularly interesting as breaking away from the existing social order. She was not held back from a lack of diploma, her gender expectations or her status as a migrant in achieving her building of a modernist master piece.
The one-day workshop with Beatrice Minger (the director of E.1027), Florencia Fernandez Cardoso (architectural historian and researcher) and Hülya Ertas (curator at the Flanders Architecture Institute) aims to find new methodologies to tell stories otherwise.
03.03.2024
09h30 -17h
DE SINGEL (Expozaal)
Desguinlei 25, 2018 Antwerp
Free, but registration necessary
English
Flanders Architecture Institute and De Cinema
Beatrice Minger, Florencia Fernandez Cardoso and Hülya Ertas
the Flemish Community
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Starting in 2025, De Cinema and the Flemish Architecture Institute (VAi) will join forces for a unique series of monthly film evenings in De Cinema in Antwerp under the title “Architecture on Film”. Each first Tuesday of the month, this collaboration takes you into the world of architecture and cinema, where buildings become characters, cities set the stage, and design shapes the stories. Films are always screened in their original language with English subtitles, and introductions are in English. For those seeking a second chance: the films will be re-screened without an introduction on the third Tuesday of the month.
The series kicks off in January and February 2025 with the theme “Living Together”, focusing on collective living and architecture’s social engagement. As from March, the focus shifts to the female perspective and diversity in architecture.
