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Trace Elements (Paperback)
Benjamin Aranda, Chris Lasch
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"Trace elements" are minerals that exist in minute quantities
necessary for the growth and development of cells. Exposure to
excessive quantities is toxic, but without them our bodies would
atrophy. They are the crystalline structures that support life.
Over the past decade, Aranda\Lasch has focused obsessively on these
structures as a form of both organization and expression for
architecture. Their projects explore the interplay between
rule-based systems and human ritual. In scale, this work lies
somewhere between furniture and building, so that what is built,
drawn, and projected gives human measure to procedural thinking.
Published on the occasion of the studio's exhibition "Meeting the
Clouds Halfway" at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Tucson,
this book is a collection of recent explorations into modularity,
craft, pattern, rhythm, material, and memory. Trace Elements
documents a wide-ranging and yet sharply focused body of work from
an office dedicated both to intellectual exploration and the honing
of a distinct design sensibility.
Situated at the interaction of art, architecture, music,
mathematics, cosmology and science, Matthew Ritchie's "The Morning
Line" is a 33-foot high sound pavilion, constructed in aluminum and
conceived in part as a successor to Edgard Varese and Le
Corbusier's pavilion for the 1958 World's Fair, and Fritz
Bornemann's Expo '70 Pavilion. Designed in collaboration with New
York-based architects Aranda Lasch, the Arup Advanced Geometry Unit
and the Music Research Centre of York University, the structure was
inspired by the cosmological theories of Paul Steinhardt and Neil
Turok, and offered a sonic environment in which newly commissioned
works by well-known musicians were performed. This survey of the
project includes a book containing Todd Eberle's photographs of the
structure, a poster, a newspaper and a red vinyl LP with music by
contemporary electronica musicians such as Alexej Borisov, Tommi
Gronlund, Petteri Nisunen, Christian Fennesz, Carsten Nicolai,
Zsolt Olejnik, Finnbogi Petursson, Franz Pomassl, Terre Thaemlitz
and Zavoloka.
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