In 2002, she built the Blur Building in Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland, for the Swiss Expo 2002. However, many of Diller's dreams have been realized.
Some of them-like her 2013 proposal for an inflatable bubble to be seasonally applied to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.-have been so outrageous they've never been built. She uses colored pencils, black Sharpies, and rolls of tracing paper to capture her ideas. Thos Robinson/Getty Images for New York TimesĪmerican architect Elizabeth Diller is always sketching. "The threshold is the moment at which that changes the edge of what is building and what is something else." "Most fundamentally, architecture is the enclosure of space, the distinction between what is inside and outside," Levete writes. She and her new design team have continued to "dream across the threshold," building on her past success. Levete split from Kaplický and established her own firm, AL_A, in 2009.
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Many people are familiar with the work from an older version of Microsoft Windows in which it's featured as one of the most iconic images in the library of desktop backgrounds-and for which Kaplický seems to have gotten all of the credit. Welsh-born architect Levete, Czech-born architect Jan Kaplický, and their architectural firm, Future Systems, completed their blobitecture (blob architecture) chef d'oeuvre, the shiny-disc façade of Selfridges department store in Birmingham, England in 2003. For me it's the reverse." -Amanda Levete. "Eileen Gray was firstly a designer and then practiced architecture.
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