Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Gianni Pettena fonds, 1960-2019
•    Série(s): Works, 1966-2018
•      Projet: Ice House II (1972), circa 1972-2015

Personnes et institutions:

• Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
• Gianni Pettena (artist)

Titre:

Ice House II (1972)

Date:

circa 1972-2015

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 23 digital files (122 MB)
  15 drawings (including 13 reprographic copies)
  13 photographic materials

Présentation du contenu:
The project series documents "Ice House II" a project which consisted of freezing a small house in suburban Minneapolis, by pouring water into a wooden mold surrounding the house and letting the water freeze to create a block of ice. "If the addition of material then leads, paradoxically, to the disappearence of the 'architectural' object, this subtraction only highlights the serial repetitiveness of the dwellings in American suburbia." [1] It is unclear if this project was ever performed.

The project series contains photographs of the frozen house, photographic reproductions of aerial views and plans of the neighbourhood for the selection of the house, sketches and a perspective drawing.

Source:
[1] Marco Scotini, editor. Non-conscious architecture: Gianni Pettena, Sternberg Press, 2018, 235 pages. p. 152.

Numéro de référence:

AP207.S1.1972.PR01

Mode de classement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Localisation:

Minneapolis Minnesota États-Unis

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English
• Italian

Contient:

• AP207.S1.1972.PR01.001, Sketch, perspective drawing, and photograph, Ice House II, circa 1972
• AP207.S1.1972.PR01.002, Sketches, and photographic reproduction of aerial view and plans of the neighbourhood, Ice House II, circa 1972
• AP207.S1.1972.PR01.003, Digitized sketches, photographs, and project descriptions, Ice House II, 2006 - 2015