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Digest Domus Monocle Aesthetica and Wallpaper* The first comprehensive monograph on the
cross-disciplinary practice including over 100 built and ephemeral works Since its founding in
1981 New York-based studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has designed some of the world's
most revered civic spaces and cultural institutions. Their practice covers architecture urban
design installation art performance digital media and print. From the renowned High Line in
New York City to the upcoming V&A East Storehouse in London to some of their earliest projects
like the Blur building designed for the 2002 Swiss Expo DS+R explores alternative strategies
in space-making that engage and surprise on a global scale. Designed by DS+R as a pair of
structurally conjoined volumes this monograph invites readers to bridge different modes of
production and reconsider the limits of architecture. The unique binding allows each volume to
be read individually or in parallel by unfolding the book at the spine. Special crossover
layouts link the two volumes with shared obsessions. The monograph features layouts by design
consultancy 2x4 with photography by Iwan Baan and Matthew Monteith amongst other
photographers. It also includes new dialogues with visionaries from other creative fields
including artist Edmund de Waal art critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist curator Paola
Antonelli actor Alan Cumming choreographer William Forsythe professor Sylvia Lavin curator
Ana Miljacki and Jill Medvedow.
