| | Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio. Aaron Betsky, editor.
Coinciding with a recent exhibition
at the Whitney Museum of Art on the duo's work, this book
contains essays, an interview and illustrations of their
varied oeuvre, from their early performance sets to the
Blur building and recent competition-winning architectural
designs. The essays range in subject matter and focus, reflecting
the couple's unconventional practice, with relevant projects
sprinkled within the essays, the best of which deal with
their investigation of the human body and their embrace
of technology, particularly surveillance technology. The
duo also designed the exhibition at the Whitney, as well
as creating a site-specific artwork for the duration of
the show that questions the museum's setting for art. This
questioning of the norm extends to the realm of the book
in its unique design and its "hidden" pages.
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