In examining the relationship between Surrealism and Architecture it may be useful to examine surrealisms application as an ideology for architectural gestures and whether the narrative is readily discernible to the visitor and the more habitual user once the project has reached completion. If once implemented or realised, will the programme still have a rational outcome, conducive to intentions; will a house be a home? As a method of examination I’d like to look at the early work of OMA and Rem Koolhaas, a motivation generated from images I came across at a recent Surrealism exhibition in the Barbican. Images of a giraffe conversing with Villa Dall’Ava in Paris, a project commissioned prior to OMA’s first build.
