Sections and plan for Folly Three: The Rigorous Abolition of History

People:

Agrest and Gandelsonas (architectural firm)

Title:

Sections and plan for Folly Three: The Rigorous Abolition of History

Date:

1983

Description:

Plan and sections for one of four "Folly" projects designed by Agrest and Gandelsonas for the exhibition "Architecture III: Follies: Architecture for the Late Twentieth-Century Landscape" at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, October 22-November 19, 1983

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Technique and media:

Graphite on paper

Dimensions:

69.7 x 79.3 cm

Reference number:

DR2019:0015

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

Title and text are inscribed on a separate sheet 6 x 25.6 cm. Drawing and title sheet encapsulated by CCA

Inscription:

Text inscribed before title: "The wall and the books". Text inscribed after title: "A stone arcade filled with books is sunk in a pool dividing it in two." The drawing is initialled by the architects and dated.

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Diana Agrest et Mario Gandelsonas/
Gift of Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas

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