Prototype 180
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prototype 180 is an artwork by American
conceptual art
ist Mary Ellen Carroll
who lives and works in New York City
and Houston. prototype 180 is "the centerpiece of Carroll's Innovation Territories, an initiative co-sponsored by the Rice University Building Institute. prototype 180 is located at 6513 Sharpsview Drive, Houston.Houston was self-selected itself as the site of the artwork because it lacks an official land-use policy.
The artwork "will make architecture performative." It is literally a ground-shifting exercise, because it structurally involves the rotation, back to front, of a single-family, ranch-style house and its surrounding land in the development of Sharpstown, a suburb of Houston, Texas
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Following the rotation, the structure will be retrofitted and rehabilitated to become an occupied structure that will be become an institute for the study of considered urbanism. In planning for 10 years, prototype 180 is described as "reconsideration of monumentality that combines live performance, sculpture, architecture and technology."
United States
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conceptual art
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
ist Mary Ellen Carroll
Mary Ellen Carroll
Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist who lives and works in New York City and Houston. The artist has exhibited at Whitney Museum, ICA London, Museum fur Volkerkunde in Munich, ICA Philadelphia, MUMOK in Vienna and the Renaissance Society in Chicago....
who lives and works in New York City
New York City
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and Houston. prototype 180 is "the centerpiece of Carroll's Innovation Territories, an initiative co-sponsored by the Rice University Building Institute. prototype 180 is located at 6513 Sharpsview Drive, Houston.Houston was self-selected itself as the site of the artwork because it lacks an official land-use policy.
The artwork "will make architecture performative." It is literally a ground-shifting exercise, because it structurally involves the rotation, back to front, of a single-family, ranch-style house and its surrounding land in the development of Sharpstown, a suburb of Houston, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
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Following the rotation, the structure will be retrofitted and rehabilitated to become an occupied structure that will be become an institute for the study of considered urbanism. In planning for 10 years, prototype 180 is described as "reconsideration of monumentality that combines live performance, sculpture, architecture and technology."
See also
- Mary Ellen CarrollMary Ellen CarrollMary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist who lives and works in New York City and Houston. The artist has exhibited at Whitney Museum, ICA London, Museum fur Volkerkunde in Munich, ICA Philadelphia, MUMOK in Vienna and the Renaissance Society in Chicago....
- Gordon Matta-ClarkGordon Matta-ClarkGordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls.-Life and work:Both of Gordon Matta-Clark's...
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- ArchitectureArchitectureArchitecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...