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An apartment shifts within its architectural structure. Gradually, floor by floor, it sinks until it is on the verge of disappearing into the sewer system. The mysterious change is collectively ignored by the building’s residents. Meanwhile, the narrator in Ilse Aichinger’s short story continues to hope, until the very end, that someone will break the silence: “Excuse me, but weren’t you living one floor higher yesterday?”
What kinds of structures shape the places we live in? What traces of use become inscribed in them and continue to resonate beyond them? Aichinger’s Where I Live not only lends its title to the exhibition with which Haus am Waldsee reflects on its 80th anniversary in the summer of 2026, but also points to the connections between social conditions and …
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Image caption: Villa Knobloch, heute Haus am Waldsee, Grundriss 1923, Modifizierung durch Richard Venlet, 2026, Courtesy der Künstler
