Sixth Street House project, Santa Monica, CA (Isometrics and plan)
Thom Mayne
American, born 1944
Andrew Zago
American, born 1958
Morphosis, Santa Monica, CA
founded 1972
1990
A screenprint with metal foil on paper in which Thom Mayne translates a proposed Santa Monica house into layered isometric and plan fragments to probe complex spatial relationships and movement.
You’re struck by a dense collage of translucent gray planes and rust-red and teal volumes, all stitched together by precise axonometric lines and flashes of metal foil that give the poster an uncanny, rotating, machine‑like depth.
The work exemplifies a late‑20th‑century shift toward drawings as experimental objects, advancing a fragmented, diagrammatic visual language that helped pave the way for deconstructivist and later digital/parametric architectural practices.
Medium
Screenprint with metal foil on paper
Dimensions
40 x 30" (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
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Department
Credit
Given anonymously
Accession
272.1999.4
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