A new exhibition at Aalborg\u2019s Utzon Center, \u2018Holiday Home\u2019, chronicles the past, present, and future of the iconic Danish sommerhus. The exhibition opens with a look at the beginnings of Scandinavian second home culture,\u00a0several centuries ago, back when escaping the city in the summer months was the preserve of...
This is a comprehensive show, one that goes all the way back to the 18th-century origins of the association between rural retreats and health and wellbeing. Key examples of the genre are represented with new photography, from Anton Rosen’s 1917 holiday home at Vejby Strand, the so-called ‘Truancy Cottage’, through to Arne Jacobsen’s own modernist holiday home in Sejerø Bay. Although Rosen’s structure was neo-classical in form, it was a temple of simplicity, not grandeur.
The latter is of ever-increasing importance in an age of rapidly diminishing natural resources, and the show addresses this fundamental paradox – how can second homeownership be squared with these stark realities?In 1977, the author Klaus Rifbjerg commissioned a writer’s cabin in Skagen from local architect Alfred Hansen. This simple black wooden house is one of the blueprints for the reductivist approach that’s now favoured, spurred on by endless Instagram accounts and idle dreams.
The Utzon Center was Jørn Utzon’s last design, completed after his death in 2008 by his son Kim. The exhibition sprawls across the generous gallery spaces and courtyards and the scale of the building allowed the curators to include two full-size models in the exhibition. The gallery houses another holiday home concept by Ingels, the Zelt Cabin, a cross between a cabin and a tent. Both tiny houses were built by Rose’s company Klein, which is looking to turn highly crafted architect-designed structures into vacation retreats for all.
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