Project Description
All Over the Place
32 feet long, 15 inches wide, and 25 inches tall at its highest point, All Over the Place is a ⅛-inch sectional model of a fantastical urbanscape. Sits atop a 46-inch-tall podium, it displays two distinct elevations along its clipped edges, where imaginary architecture scenes unfold with inconclusive plots.
Presented as a scroll, horizontally extended, All Over the Place offers visitors views of a place that is strangely familiar, yet existing in an undefined time. It orchestrates primitive shapes and found architecture elements as characters on a stage, accumulating spacial narratives through their geometrical relationships. Its effect is that of a theater of imagination, awaiting visitors to volunteer as its missing scale figures, to travel through its interior and to dream up their own stories.
All Over the Place questions architecture’s relationship to the linear interpretation of history, where architecture imagination has been subjected to notions of development, progression and relevance. It sees architecture languages not as part of any genealogy, but instead as collections of objects with spacial quality, unconstrained by style and genre. All Over the Place is an inquiry into architecture’s ability to unsubscribe from its historical lineage; for architecture to be a place which is untethered from its context.
All Over the Place is on view at A+D Museum (Architecture plus Design Museum) in Los Angeles, until April 5th, 2020.
By Preliminary Research Office http://www.p–r–o.com/