Icelandic architecture featured at DAM

4. October, 2011

On September 30, Deutsches Architekturmuseum opened an exhibition that offers an overview on Icelandic architecture – from the country's settlement to modern times.

Titled “Island und Architektur?” and enriched by the acclaimed photographs of Guðmundur Ingólfsson, the exhibition attempts to shed light on various questions from the past, present and future of Icelandic architecture. What kinds of houses were built in a country that, for a long period of its history, had scant access to such elementary materials as timber? How did the infamous economic bubble influence Icelandic buildings? Or the recession in its wake?

For added perspective, Henry Bateman's award-winning documentary Future of Hope, which explores various prospective paths Iceland could take towards economic and environmental sustainability, will also play at the exhibition.

^{Photo: Guðmundur Ingólfsson}