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Avant-garde architect
uses body as central
theme in design work

ELIZABETH DILLER and
her partner Ricardo
Scofidio are at the forefront
of avant-garde architecture.

Diller and Scofidio deliberately
inhabit the margins of architec-
ture. Their projects range from
gallery exhibitions and installa-
tions, stage design and body con-
structions to built work.

Their influences and inierests
include Marcel Duchamp, an-
drogeny, medical devices and
Probes, bodybuilding, John Cage,
commercials, performance art,
robotics, neo-Dada, hygiene,
guerilla art, and John Hejduk.

In their work, design becomes
social commentary. The body is
perhaps the central theme of their
work and it enters as content, site
and situation.

Diller and Scofidio first became
known for their theatre designs
and installations, including the
Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate
(inspired by Duchamp’s Large
Glass, or The Bride Stripped Bare
by Her Bachelors) (1987), which
included a chastity belt body con-
struction; The American Mysteries
(1984); and ‘Bridge — the Mem-
ory Theatre of Giulio Camillo”
(1986).

Other recent projects include:
Para/-site, an installation at the
Museum of Modern Art (1989);

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headquarters for Creative Time
and Dance Theatre Workshop in
the Battery Maritime Building in
New York (scheduled for comple-
tion in 1994); and Tourisms: a
suitCase Study (1991), which was
part of the Walker Art Centre's
**Architecture Tomorrow” series.

The Slow House (in progress
and scheduled for completion this
year), a holiday residence on Long
Island, won a Progressive Ar-
chitecture 1991 award.

Elizabeth Diller was born in
Lodz, Poland, in 1954. She
received her Bachelor of Architec-
ture from the Cooper Union in

‘New York City in 1979, where she

taught from 1981 to 1990. Diller is
now an assistant professor at
Princeton in New Jersey.

Diller and Scofidio have been
working together since 1979, They
have had numerous exhibitions of
their work, including in Berlin,
Paris and New York. Their work
has been published in journals and
magazines around the world.

Diller will be giving a free lec-
ture entitled ‘‘Flesh’’ at the Rob-
son Square Conference Centre on
March 4 at 6 p.m. For more in-
formation, contact Jeannie Bates
at 732-5390.

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