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Flesh: Architectural Probes

Flesh: Architectural Probes

Current price: $39.95
Publication Date: January 1st, 1996
Publisher:
Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN:
9781878271372
Pages:
257

Description

Like all the work of architects Liz Diller + Ric Scofidio, Flesh is a set of contradictions and complexities. Itis both a monograph of their workthe first ever on their art, architecture, and installationsbut also not a traditional monograph. It is a both/and, neither/nor book-as-project noted at the time of its publication, in 1994, for its groundbreaking typography and not-too-subtle critique of architecture from within. Since its publication, Diller + Scofidio (now Diller Scofidio + Renfro ) have gone on to become among the world's most famous architects, but the themes, concerns, and even forms that make them so celebrated today are all here in Flesh, along with its most radical proposition: that anything can be architecture, starting with this book, one of the most sought-after and valuable books in our library.

Praise for Flesh: Architectural Probes

Some now regard Las Vegas as a wave of the future, the ultimate architectural incarnation of a society that can't get off the roulette wheel. I'll put my money on Diller and Scofidio. This gifted team takes architecture back to the front of ideas. Herbert Muschamp, The New York Times

Flesh is a delightful collection of seemingly disparate architectural elements ...which nevertheless coheres as a strong architectural statement. Michael Speaks, Newline