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Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line Scale Model, 2007

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Matthew Ritchie

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Painted Museum Board, Plastic, Model
42 x 118 x 77.5 cm
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Let’s start at the beginning, with a new kind of brick. A universal bit. Proposed here is The Morning Line, a gesture, a holo-tectonic system. Geometry and expression are united. Infinitely self-scaling: modular units increase or decrease around a fixed ratio but can expand or contract in any size or direction. Interactive in multiple ways; the content grows and adapts as the structure changes both physically and in information depth over time. All components are interchangeable, demountable, portable and recyclable. (Matthew Ritchie)
Architecture is an inherently destructive act. It’s the very physical breakdown of materials into smaller components that are standardized in order to recompose into new stable structures. Computation is also destructive, it breaks things down into language, an abstract and codified system to build and rebuild from the smallest components—ones and zeroes. Re-composition can become automated. – Aranda\Lasch

Aranda\Lasch is a New York and Tucson-based design studio established in 2003 by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch that designs buildings, installations and furniture.

Matthew Ritchie: *1964 in London, UK | Living and working in New York, USA
Benjamin Aranda: *1973 | Living and working in New York and Tucson, USA
Chris Lasch: *1972 | Living and working in New York and Tucson, USA

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