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subscribe to style file blog via RSSobject or architecture? hani rashid blurs the lines at phillips de pury
June 13, 2008 2:13 pm
When Hani Rashid, the founder of radical New York-based architecture firm Asymptote, isn’t designing a building in Abu Dhabi or overseeing the construction of 166 Perry Street, the fabulous new residential building currently rising up on the West Side, he’s organizing exhibitions. Currently on view at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York, “Atmospherics” is a formal investigation of objects being subjected to variables such as speed and movement. As the building blocks for his works, Rashid uses a unique, geometric form called M-Scapes (Motion-Scapes), which straddle the line between object and architecture. “These days,” explained Rashid, “you have buildings that look like objects and you have objects that aspire to become buildings. The most important works of the twentieth century blurred these lines.” Accordingly, the stunning “LQ Chandelier de Pury” begs the question: ornate chandelier or the show’s pièce de résistance?
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