Fashionecture

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

BAD PRESS: DISSIDENT HOUSEWORK SERIES 1993-98
Details of custom-ironed shirts and view of installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2003
Photo courtesy of

Neil M. Denari Architects
High Line 23 Condominium Tower
New York (2005-07)

CLUSTERING BEAUTY Collection
Spring/Summer 1998

(More photos available in the blog post. Link in bio)

Comme des Garçons
Photos 1 & 2: Garment from FUSION Collection Autumn/Winter 1998-99 Courtesy of Skin + Bone
Photo 3: Garment from Collection NEW ESSENTIAL, Spring/Summer 1999 Courtesy of Skin+ Bone

Comme des Garçons
Garments from BODY MEETS DRESS, DRESS MEETS BODY collection
Spring/Summer 1997


Photo courtesy of Vogue magazine
Last photo courtesy of Paolo Roversi/Metropolitan Museum of Art

Preston Scott Cohen
Torus House(Unbuilt), Old Chatham, New York 1998-2000
“In Torus, House designed for landscape painter, the orthogonal features of the building-floor,walls and ceiling are connected to each other by curvilinear form that alludes to the torus, a donut shape generated in by revolving a circle along a coplanar axis. Thus, the orthogonal features seem part of a single underlating surface, and the interior of the house effects continuity with the surrounding hills.”
Contested and Other Predicaments in Architecture (NY: Princeton Architectural Press 2001)

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Preston Scott Cohen
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building


Photo courtesy

Hussein Chalayan
Shaved Tulle dress from BEFORE MINUS NOW collection
Spring/Summer 2000

In 2015 I went to see Pascal in Briey and because he knew about my passion for fashion, he suggested I visit Centre Pompidou Metz by Shigeru Ban Architects (2010) who designed an intricate woven roof structure of hexagonal wood units that appears to float above the exhibition spaces.

(The first three pictures are mine and the others are the courtesy of Romain Mesli , James Ewing & Didier Boy de la Tour)

Photo courtesy of Shigeru Ban Architects
Naked House
Saitama, Japan, 1999-2000

A translucent skin of corrugated-fabricglass-reinforced plastic for the waterhouselike structure, echoing the greenhouses of the surrounding agricultural region. The interior of the house is an open plan that fosters a communal atmosphere for its inhabitants: three generations of the client’s family.

Paper Emergency Shelters for the United Nations high commissioner for refugees
Byumba refuge camp 1995-99

Ban explored their potential in the range of temporary shelters that he designed for earthquake victims in Japan, Turkey, and India and for more than two million Rwandan refugees. Each of the Rwandan paper-tube structures (1995-99) ingeniously uses the standard plastic sheet issued to refugees by the United Nations to form its walls and roof. Ban worked together with a paper manufacturer to devise ways to produce the tubes on site, thereby expediting the process of providing shelter and eliminating the need to transport materials from afar-in addition to addressing local deforestation issues by requiring no timber.

Shigeru Ban’s architecture exploration of the structural properties of a simple yet unusual building materials.
Ban used an unexpected material, fabric, for his Curtain Wall House in Tokyo. 1993-95, transforming it to a building exterior.