Nachglühen is an editorial project by Ella Eßlinger and Clara Richard Gostynski
Designed by Studio SMS – Katharina Shafiei-Nasab and Alix Stria

What if the houses of our grandmothers were the monuments of the 20^th century? Nachglühen / Afterglow is an editorial project which looks at architecture through the lives of our grandmothers. In search of undocumented forces on architecture and the domestic space as a place of labour, we search for records by diving into their private lives, looking into backyards, entrances, wardrobes, political documents, and contracts. Our archive consists of diaries, family albums, photocopies, drawings, instructions and lists, gathered by architects and writers. These documents serve as a source for the history of what we call domestic monuments of the 20^th century, which to some extent we aim to reconstruct in this collection.

Representing both an archive and a publication, Afterglow holds personal memories connected to a house or a place. As architecture and memory are inextricably linked, placing and organizing them together opens up new ways of reading and understanding built history. In the end, what is the difference between monuments and our grandmothers’ houses? Perhaps the monument of the 20^th century is private: a house or a garden, or a chess set, a tablecloth, a briefcase. The more private, the better, because these fragments store memories for the public realm.

Issue 1: June 2022, print

with the support of the Canton of Zurich, Cassinelli-Vogel-Stiftung
Self published via ETH Zurich

contributions in German by: Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, Antonietta Girotto, Carmela Schleiniger, Clara Richard, Ella Eßlinger, Gianna Ledermann, Güner Karapınar, Ilse Kibgis, Jakob Walter, Julia Gostynski, Julian Wäckerlin, Eugenia Kapczyc, Mara Quazzotti, Margrit Holdener, Merve Yıldırım, Myriam Uzor, Renate Blome, Rita Blarer, Rosmarie Ledermann-Scheurer, Sacha Gengler, Sieglinde Steiff, Tamino Kuny

Issue 2: June 2024, print

with support of the Canton of Zurich, Stiftung Anne Marie Schindler, Bund Schweizer Architektinnen (BSA)
Published by women writing architecture (publishing), ISBN: 978-3-907461-01-3

contributions in German and English by: Benedikt Bock, Camila Medina Novoa, Charlie-Anne Côté, Christine Susanne Gerold, Ciro Miguel, Dimitra Toula Bakla, Elba Ramona Chavez, Fabienne Girsberger, Ingeborg Rosa Zahnweh, Luise Rellensmann, Luzia de Paula, Lydia Xynogala, Marcelle Bergeron, Maria Lenden, Olga Hohmann, Rose-Marie Hauser, Silvan Hillmann, Tam J. Berger Knoll, Tatjana Blaser, Victor Lortie

 

extracts from Nachglühen #1 (2022) and extracts from Nachglühen #2 (2024)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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