Pleated Pritzker Prize

Pleated Pritzker Prize

Pleated copy of the program from the 2000 Pritzker Prize award ceremony. Edition of one.

In her book Folding Architecture, Sophia Vyzoviti cites S,M,L,XL as “the most influential unexecuted project of the 90’s” to operate accordng to both the theoretical and practical axioms laid out by Giles Deleuze in his essay Folding in Architecture, originally published by Greg Lynn’s eponymous issue of Architectural Design Profile.

To fashion this chain of citations into a closed loop in the most literal fashion, I detached each page from a found copy of the Pritzker Prize award ceremony program, and applied to each page one of Vyzoviti’s iterative pleat techniques, as illustrated in Folding Architecture.

Photograph by g. a. carafelli.