Elevation and plan for Folly One: The Circular Time

People:

Agrest and Gandelsonas (architectural firm)

Title:

Elevation and plan for Folly One: The Circular Time

Date:

1983

Description:

Elevation and plan 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 79.4 cm

Reference number:

DR2019:0016

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

Title and text are inscribed on a separate sheet 6.1 x 25.6 cm Drawing and title sheet encapsulated by CCA

Inscription:

Text inscribed after title: "'Remember that all things rotate--, and rotate again, in the same orbit, and that for the spectator, it is the same to see them for one century, or for two, or forever.' J.L. Borges. Two identical panoramas revolve around a fixed column. The panoramas, fixed to the center pole by chain and gear, maintain a static view and periodically eclipse one another's field of vision as they revolve." 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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