At Home With Mme Le Corbusier
An exhibition by Andrew Ayers with PIN-UP magazine
9 July - 16 August
10am - 6pm Monday - Friday
10am - 5pm Saturday

Wandering Through the Future
A film by Marjolijn Dijkman
22 - 23 August
12-6pm

The Rule of Regulations
An exhibition by Finn Williams with David Knight
29 August - 13 September
10am - 6pm Monday - Friday
10am - 5pm Saturday

The Architecture Foundation launches the temporary Closet Gallery as part of The London Festival of Architecture. The Closet is conceived by artist Simon Fujiwara, designed and produced with architect Sam Causer, in a railway arch in Bankside. It will contain a series of short exhibitions and events exploring the space between domesticity and the city.

Equal parts sculpture and gallery, The Closet provides The Architecture Foundation with a temporary pavilion as part of an ongoing process that questions how architecture is exhibited and represented. What may at first appear to be a fanciful venue for exhibitions forces architects, artists and critics to question how they present themselves and their work, encouraging new thinking and ideas to come to fruition.

The Closet is constructed in an arch previously used as a shelter by a homeless man for 30 years. The installation takes the form of a large built-in wardrobe, reminiscent of the artist’s own childhood bedroom furniture. It forms a display space – conceived as a modern day ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ – that can be opened and closed, filling the entire site. Taking its inspiration from standard home interior design, and more poignantly bedroom architecture, The Closet poses questions concerning the division between public and private spheres, between the domestic and the urban, and ultimately offers an exhibition venue that injects use-value into a formerly redundant urban site.

At Home With Mme Le Corbusier
The inaugural exhibition profiles the exclusive wife of modernism’s most influential architect. At Home with Mme Le Corbusier, curated by Justin Jaeckle, The Architecture Foundation, features text by Andrew Ayers from an original essay published in PIN-UP Magazine for Architectural Entertainment, Issue 4, Summer 2008, with images supplied by Fondation Le Corbusier.

Wandering Through the Future
Marjolijn Dijkman's film, Wandering Through the Future, consists of fragments of 70 Älm productions from all over the world. In one hour, this video leads the audience through a variety of apocalyptic landscapes and settings from the year 2008 until 802701 AD. We encounter the way the future has been given shape with scenes of natural disasters, utopian and dystopian cities, viruses, clones and habitats on other planets. Wandering Through the Future confronts issues of ecology and ideological conÅict, giving an insight into fear of the unknown through a sequence of Äctional scenarios.

The Rule of Regulations
How are current laws influencing the design of new housing? Are different architectural styles being encouraged or prohibited? In the last two years, the UK housebuilding industry has been inundated with new codes, regulations, guidance and legislation. As a result, the estimated 3 million new homes needed within the next 12 years will be more sustainable, more accessible, and more regulated than ever before. Taken together, this new body of regulations could unwittingly influence the form of 21st century residential architecture as much, if not more so, than modernist manifestos did at the beginning of the 20th century. The Rule of Regulations pits Le Corbusier’s five points of modern architecture against five pieces of current housing legislation to ask whether a new vernacular is being created, and how Le Corbusier’s iconic Maison Citrohan would look if built today.