Title & Author:

LOT-EK : mobile dwelling unit / [organized by] Christopher Scoates.

Publication:

New York, NY : Distributed Art Publishers, ©2003.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Exhibition held first at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn., June-September, 2003, and then others.
Catalogue of a travelling exhibition held at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn., June-Sept., 2003; University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, Calif., Oct.-Dec., 2003; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., June-Oct. 2004; Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Jan.-Mar. 2005.
Includes interview with Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano.
Includes bibliographical references (page 10).
Foreword / Bonnie G. Kelm -- Acknowledgements / Christopher Scoates -- LOT-EK biography -- Moving, stacking, containing, expanding, dwelling -- MDU concept -- To have and to hold: The MDU and vital architecture / Henry Urbach -- LOT-EK: Mobility, materiality, identity / Robert Kronenburg -- From high-tech to LOT-EK: A brief journey / Aaron Betsky -- Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano speak with Christopher Scoates -- Construction drawings -- MDU fabrication -- Artists' acknowledgements.

Summary:

"Renowned for their transformations of commonplace industrial objects, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano of LOT-EK tackle the standardized shipping container. The resulting project, Mobile Dwelling Unit (MDU), transforms an existing 40-foot-long shipping container into a portable living space. Equipped with a series of expandable and retractable subvolumes, each of which contains a discrete function, the MDU can be easily transported via truck, train, or ship to its next location. 'LOT-EK: MDU' extensively documents the project with source imagery, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of the fabrication process. Essays by Aaron Betsky, Robert Kronenburg, and Henry Urbach, as well as an interview with the artists provide important contexts for understanding the MDU"--Back cover.

ISBN:

189102468X
9781891024689

Subject:

Tolla, Ada.
Lignano, Giuseppe.
LOT/EK Architecture.
LOT/EK Architecture Expositions.
Buildings, Portable.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Constructions transportables.
Architecture Innovations.
portable buildings.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
Interviews.

Added entries:

Scoates, Christopher.
Lignano, Giuseppe
Tolla, Ada
LOT/EK Architecture.
Walker Art Center.
University of California, Santa Barbara. University Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
Nederlands Architectuurinstituut

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229428
Call No.: NA44.L882.23 L6 2003
Status: Available