SCANNING: THE ABERRANT ARCHITECTURE OF DILLER + SCOFIDIO

Betsky, Aaron, K. Michael Hays, Laurie Anderson, Jordan Crandall, Edward Dimendberg, Roselee Goldberg and Ashley Schafer

ISBN 10: 0874271312 / ISBN 13: 9780874271317

Published by Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2003

About this Item

Foreword by Maxwell L. Anderson. Illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, drawings and plans. 394 illustrations in color and 24 in black-and-white. Each page is doubled and bound-in with a diecut centered on the fore-edge. As issued without dust jacket. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Light scuffs near the top edge of the front cover. The rear cover has surface smudges. Near fine condition. This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Scanning: The Aberrant Architecture of Diller + Scofidio at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 1 - May 25, 2003.; Color and black-and-white illustrations; 4to.; 191 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SCANNING: THE ABERRANT ARCHITECTURE OF DILLER + SCOFIDIO
• Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874271312
• ISBN 13: 9780874271317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • 501 (May, 2016)

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Synopsis

Among the most talked-about names in contemporary architecture, the firm of Diller + Scofidio has for the last two decades redefined what architecture can be. Through site-specific, highly conceptual works such as the acclaimed redesign of the famed Brasserie restaurant in New York City's Seagram Building, to the "Blur" building, created for the Swiss Expo 2002 and composed entirely of mist, the firm has consistently challenged and expanded the role of architecture and design in our technology-oriented environment.

In this first-ever comprehensive survey of the work of this internationally recognized firm, published to accompany a traveling exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 10 of Diller + Scofidio's most important site-specific pieces are examined, along with several of the artifacts they have created in order to examine issues of gender, surveillance, place, and travel. With essays by respected scholars and a contribution by contemporary artist Laurie Anderson, this fully illustrated volume offers a compelling look at the work of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio.

About the Author

K. Michael Hays, Adjunct Curator of Architecture, Whitney Museum of American Art, is a leading architectural theorist and historian and Eliot Noyes Professor of Architecture Theory at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Aaron Betsky, Co-curator of the Whitney exhibition, is Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. Laurie Anderson is a musician and performance artist.