The exhibition at the ICA in Boston (until 27 April), is the first chance to see close up the design for the new museum which after being presented to the public last September is now about to go on site. A well articulated and comprehensive display which takes the visitor through the early conceptual phases of the project right up to the final model, including a video in which the architects talk about their ideas, an animated tour of the building and a series of materials which aim to show the relationship of the museum to its city context. The project for the new Institute of Contemporary Art is the first museum to be designed by the practice, as well as the first museum to be built in the city of Boston for a century. It is due to be completed by 2006.
In New York, a major retrospective is about to open (until 1 June), curated by Aaron Betsky and Michael Hays, which examines the team’s career. Organised by the Whitney Museum, it aims to highlight the link between art – installations, video, performance, computer – and architecture, which has always been very much part of the Diller + Scofidio philosophy. An act which by breaking down the confines of single disciplines, seeks, as underlined by the two architects, “tools which allow us to feel more at home, in a world which is becoming increasingly confused and artificial”.
fino a 27.4.2003
Building a Vision: Diller + Scofidio in Boston
ICA Boston
955 Boylston Street, Boston
T +1-617-2665152
http://www.icaboston.org
1.3.2003 – 1.6.2003
Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York
T +1-212-5703676
http://www.whitney.org
