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AdmittedDiller + Scofidio, Ricardo Scofidio, Elizabeth Diller · 1991
This is a study for the Slow House, designed by Diller and Scofidio in nineteen ninety-one — a holiday house on Long Island whose whole plan bends toward a single picture window at the far end, with a television in front of it showing the same view live. The drive to the sea is the building.
Medium Cut-and-pasted color electrostatic prints and graphite on frosted polymer sheet taped to board with cut-and-pasted color photograph · Dimensions 12 3/8 x 18 3/8" (31.4 x 46.7 cm) · Credit Gift of the architects in honor of Lily Auchincloss
Hanging beside it in Gallery 417: Bag Piece (1964), performed during Perpetual Fluxfest, Cinematheque, New York, June 27, 1965, EyeWriter
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Slow House Project, North Haven, New York (Plan of lower-level and sections), Oxygen House Project (Plan), American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company project (Exterior perspective of model A101), American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company, project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Isometric plan of model J900, American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Axonometric), Terrarium Showroom project, California (Scale model, 1/16" = 1')
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.