Elevations for Folly Four: Pascal's Sphere

People:

Agrest and Gandelsonas (architectural firm)

Title:

Elevations for Folly Four: Pascal's Sphere

Date:

1983

Description:

Elevations 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:

69.9 x 79.1 cm

Reference number:

DR2019:0017

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

Title and text are inscribed on a separate sheet 6 x 25.4 cm Drawing and title sheet encapsulated by CCA

Inscription:

Text inscribed after title: "'Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonations of a few metaphors.' J.L. Borges. A wooden lighthouse is linked to a stone balloon landing shaft by a mechanism that transforms the variable rotation of a windmill into the calibrated winding of a clock." 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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