Paper cardboard plywood light-decidedly conceptual and materially ephemeral Tobias Putrih's
projects draw on visionary concepts of architecture and design and utopian ideas of 20th
century avant-gardes. The book traces Putrih's investigations into the heritage of
architectural experiment such as the works of Buckminster Fuller and Friedrich Kiesler.
Perceptron is the first comprehensive survey of Putrih's work that oscillates between
architecture sculpture and science. Through an encyclopedic array of reference materials and
critical texts it examines Putrih's practice in the context of architectural and design
history as well as the history of cybernetics and offers a richly illustrated study of
Putrih's modifications of public spaces experiments in collective form as well as his
immersive temporary environments created out of everyday materials. TOBIAS PUTRIH (*1972 Kranj
Slovenia) studied at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf before he graduated from the Academy of Fine
Arts in Ljubljana with a degree in sculpture in 1999 and earned his MFA in sculpture and video
in 2003. He lives and works between Ljubljana and Cambridge Massachusetts where he is on the
faculty of Program in Art Culture and Technology - School of Architecture and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
