Part scrapbook, part anthology of short stories, Blur: the making of nothing traces the creation, from conception to realization, of a media pavilion for the Swiss Expo.02 whose primary materials are steel and fog. The document exposes this process as a complex orchestration of theorists, engineers, meteorologists, contractors, competing fog manufacturers, and government officials within the context of turbulent politics and conflicting concepts of national identity. The book is organized chronologically as a collection of artifacts, including sketches, correspondence, construction drawings, and photographs; narratives can be discovered weaving through one another across the four-year period. The publication is not only the permanent manifestation of a temporary structure; it also documents schemes and ideas abandoned in the course of developing the pavilion.

Blur: The Making of Nothing

Arts & Photography

Diller, Elizabeth

Scofidio, Ricardo

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harry N. Abrams

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Back to the?Front is designed by the collaborative team Diller + Scofidio (see?also Flesh) and includes their newest project, sited on the tour route of the five D-Day beaches. Seductive in its design and production, Back to the Front provides critical analyses of the complex relationship between tourism and war as related forms of conquest.?
?Back to the Front is comprised of three sections. The first presents suitCase Studies: the Production of a National Past, an installation by Diller + Scofidio exhibited in the U.S. and France. ?
?The second portion consists of original texts on the theme of war and?tourism by five contemporary authors, whose fields range from hilosophy to cultural theory to fiction: George Van den Abbeele envisages?"Militarism and Tourism as transcultural forms of invasion in ompetition with each other"; Jean-Louis Déotte shows that "tourism no longer feeds solely on the wartime event . . . it is no longer soft, contemporary form of conquest . . . Tourism, rather, becomes?an essential military objective"; Thomas Keenan interrogates the?hyper-mediatization of these same wars "as proof of the birth of new?strategic requirements, cultural and media-oriented alike, for military?strategies"; Frederick Migayrou inquires into "a territorial application,?the landings and mechanics behind them, so as to enhance, in negative?relief, an impossible psychology of combat, one that arises from a?procedural complexity leading the body to . . . its total?destruction"; and Lynne Tillman offers the novella "Lust for Loss."?
?The final section of the book is Diller + Scofidio's project: in full?color, these five fold-out documents (one for each beach), deploy hybrid?photo-drawings and text-weaves to probe the relationship between these confrontations.

Visite aux armees: Tourisme de guerre: Back to the Front: Tourisms of War

History

Military

Princeton Architectural Press

Like all the work of architects Liz Diller + Ric Scofidio, Flesh is a set of contradictions and complexities. Itis both a monograph of their workthe first ever on their art, architecture, and installationsbut also not a traditional monograph. It is a both/and, neither/nor book-as-project noted at the time of its publication, in 1994, for its groundbreaking typography and not-too-subtle critique of architecture from within. Since its publication, Diller + Scofidio (now Diller Scofidio + Renfro ) have gone on to become among the world's most famous architects, but the themes, concerns, and even forms that make them so celebrated today are all here in Flesh, along with its most radical proposition: that anything can be architecture, starting with this book, one of the most sought-after and valuable books in our library.

Flesh: Architectural Probes

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