Ghost Parking Lot, project, Hamden, Connecticut (Perspective)
SITE
American, founded 1970
James Wines
American, born 1932
1978
A charcoal-and-wash on paper drawing by the architecture group SITE that imagines a “Ghost Parking Lot,” using moody, suggestive imagery to propose parking as sculptural, landscape-like presence.
A broad, low horizon of dense, smudged charcoal reveals rounded, car-like silhouettes emerging from a misty wash beneath an expanse of blank sky, producing an eerie, spectral stillness.
Made in 1978, this piece shows SITE’s playful, critical use of drawing to transform mundane suburban infrastructure into a speculative, socially aware proposition, helping to expand architecture’s role as critique and narrative.
Medium
Charcoal and wash on paper
Dimensions
14 x 17" (35.6 x 43.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Best Products Company Inc. Architecture Fund
Accession
579.1981
Palette
Art Terms
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