The House of Dust by Alison Knowles
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Historical works - connections between The House of Dust and architecture
-Ay-o, North Side 3 Storey Apartment, n.d.
In addition to the architectural correspondance to The House of Dust, Ay-o’s work invited physical manipulation and tactile experience.
-A vitrine organized in two sections that emphasized connections between The House of Dust and architecture. The first reflected on the physical form that Knowles gave to her poem by presenting experiments in organic architecture, such as Frederick Keisler and Ant Farm. The second considered architectural proposals by Constant and Yona Friedman that were informed by ideas of flux, transformation, and evolution. Additionally, this vitrine presented scores originally published in Fantastic Architecture, which also teased out these conceptual concerns.
Bartomeu Mari and Dieter Bognar, Frederick Kiesler, 1890-1965: Inside The Endless House, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, 1997
Ant Farm in Shelter, n.d.
Carolee Schneeman, “Parts of a Body House,” n.d., in Fantastic Architecture, ed. Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell. Something Else Press, 1971
Catherine de Zegher and Mark Wigley, Constant’s New Babylon, The Drawing Center and MIT Press, 1999
Yona Friedman, Structures Serving the Unpredictable, NAI, 1999
Dick Higgins, “Proposals (from my notebooks),” 1962-6, in Fantastic Architecture, ed. Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell. Something Else Press, 1971
Geoff Hendricks, “Floating Cities,” 1967, in Fantastic Architecture, ed. Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell. Something Else Press, 1971
Dan Graham, Homes for America, 1966-7
Through constructing a typology of architectural motifs in suburban homes, Graham underscored the limited possible variations and repetitiveness at play in the post-war American landscape; although his work echoed Knowles’s use of the computer to generate contemporaneous architectural projects, the Fluxus artist turned technology against itself.