My Dreamhouse is not a House

2019, 40-part series, archive images

Title: quote Eilfried Huth

With the support of
Gerlitz residents
Doris Pollet-Kammerlander
Eilfried Huth


Exhibition views
Foto/Industria Biennial, Fondazione MAST, Bologna 2025



My Dreamhouse is not a House deals with the Gerlitzgründe in Graz (AT), one of the first Austrian publicly funded participatory social housing projects by architect Eilfried Huth from the 1970s.

The working method he developed provided a form of collaboration where architects and prospective residents could meet on equal terms. The results from these processes were single, occupant-designed homes within residential blocks where strong communities and friendships came to develop. Seeking to universalize housing access, Huth reserved the first construction phase (30 units) of the Gerlitzgründe for low-income parents aged under 30.

Nearly 50 years later, Julia Gaisbacher explored Huth’s experiment through artistic research, combining resident interviews, archival material, and visual documentation of the uniquely facades.
The work is intended as a contemporary document of the potentially positive impact that architecture can have on society.

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