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Diller + Scofidio: critical structures: a recent Whitney Museum show featured installations, models and projections by this New York architecture team at a significant moment, as they move from art-based cultural critique into their first major commissions for museum buildings - Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio - Critical Essay
Art in America, Oct, 2003 by Tom McDonough
(2.) "1 Monde reel" (June 30-Nov. 14, 1999) was a group exhibition of contemporary art that sought to examine the theme of utopia through the dialectical relationship between imagination and action, known and unknown lands, the present and the dream, or the experience of the real and fiction.
(3.) See Scanning, p. 13.
(4.) Anyone who has spent much time in the lobby of a luxury hotel in Vietnam or India could attest to this, as could anyone who has spent some time reviewing the recent sociological literature addressing such spaces. In this regard, the work of urban planner Saskia Sassen must be mentioned; among her several books, one might single out Globalization and Its Discontents, New York, The New Press, 1998. On Bangalore as a hybrid space in which modernizing and traditional tendencies coexist, see Smriti Srinivas, Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High Tech City, Minneapolis and London, University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
(5.) As noted in the beautifully produced volume exhaustively documenting every phase of the design of this project. See Diller + Scofidio, Blur, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2002, p. 33.
(6.) Elizabeth Diller, quoted in "Interview with Elizabeth Diner and Ricardo Scofidio," in Scanning, p. 147.
(7.) See, in particular, Jerry Saltz's scathing "Architectural Follies," Village Voice, Apr. 16-22, 2003, p. 63.
"Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio" appeared at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [Mar. 1-May 25]. It was accompanied by a 192-page multiauthor catalogue.
Author: Tom McDonough teaches art history at Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y.
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