Sixth Street House project, Santa Monica, California, Sixth Street: Figure 2
Thom Mayne
American, born 1944
Andrew Zago
American, born 1958
1987
A serigraph with metal foil on paper in which architect Thom Mayne turns a sectional drawing of a proposed Sixth Street house into a layered study that makes the building's structure, circulation, and mechanical systems visible as an image in themselves.
You are struck by translucent planes and overlapping, technical linework—ghosted stairways, slabs and rooms stacked like x‑rays—punctuated by a rust‑colored, cross‑like cantilever that slices through a cool gray field.
The print shows how 1980s architects like Mayne treated drawings as autonomous artworks, using layered print techniques to blur representation and construction and helping to define a more expressive, deconstructivist way of communicating complex architectural ideas.
Medium
Serigraph with metal foil on paper
Dimensions
40 x 30" (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
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Credit
Given anonymously
Accession
272.1999.1
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