Installation Architecture: a study of Diller and Scofidio's work using the Tourisms: suitCase studies: the production of a national past installation and the Slow House

Abstract

It is hypothesized that the ideas, practices and theory developed in installation art are relevant and indeed utilisable in the discourse of architecture. It is the role of this report to find out how and why installation informs architecture. The hypothesis will be developed by an analysis of the work of Diller and Scofidio with specific reference to The Tourisms: suitCase Studies: the Production of a National Past and the Slow House. It will be shown that Diller and Scofidio's installation work can in fact be considered to be part of the discourse of architecture.