Slow House Project, North Haven, New York (Plan of lower-level and sections)
Elizabeth Diller
American, born Poland 1954
Ricardo Scofidio
American, 1935–2025
Diller + Scofidio
est. 1981
1989
A hybrid architectural object—a computer-generated print on frosted polymer with graphite, colored ink, painted wood and metal—in which Elizabeth Diller stages a plan and sectional study of a ‘Slow House’ to explore how a building’s form is conceived and measured.
The pale pine grain and washed white ground let ghostly, curving plan-and-section drawings float across the surface while a thin red construction line and two long metal drafting arms bisect the composition, turning the picture into a precise, tool-like apparatus.
The work blurs drawing, model and instrument, exemplifying a late-20th-century shift toward hybrid digital–analog processes that rethought architectural representation, scale and authorship.
Medium
Computer-generated print on frosted polymer sheet with graphite and colored ink mounted on painted wood with metal
Dimensions
47 5/8 x 36 1/2 x 1 1/2" (121 x 92.7 x 3.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Marshall Cogan Purchase Fund and Jeffrey P. Klein Purchase Fund
Accession
107.1992
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