[My masque projects are] like a traveling repertory theater. They come into the town, they do what they have to do, and they leave to go to the next place. I love that.
John Hejduk, “On the Poetry of Buildings,” c. 1988
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Christopher Derek Bruno, Temporary Installation 6: Bits Left Behind, Lagoa das Furnas, 2015
"Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler were commissioned, along with other artists including Chris Burden and Cindy Sherman, to create site-specific works dealing with Charleston’s history. The pair ended up painting the outside of an old house in colors approved by the city’s Board of Architectural Review — but in a camouflage pattern, which was hardly what the preservationists had in mind."
Jonas Dahlberg, "House in Sicily as Temporary Pavilion" at Wanås Sculpture Park, Knislinge, Sweden, 1997-9
Haworth Tompkins Architects, Shed for the Royal National Theatre, London, England, 2013 (via minhub)
The true essayist prefers a more cumulative approach; nothing is ever really left behind, only put aside temporarily until her digressive mind summons it up again, turning it this way and that in a different light, seeing what sense it makes. She offers a model of humanism that isn’t about profit or progress and does not propose a solution to life but rather puts endless questions to it.
Assemble, Folly for a Flyover, London, England, 2011 (via dezeen)