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This title is a resulting work of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) emerge, given to the firm Pezo von Ellrichshausen for their Poli House.
Introduced by an essay about the vague contradiction between intentionality and chance, necessity and accident, reason and futility, authorship and anonymity, the book presents a selection of images that inform Pezo von Ellrichshausen's cross production between art, architecture and academia. Each page contains a single picture and a brief caption describing it. Beyond a comprehensive depiction of the individual works, the monograph underlines transversal notions of inventory, format, scale, regulation and value within the pictorial representation. In the fashion of a personal album, each drawing, painting, photograph, model or building, evokes the mental world behind the couple's production. This volume could be read both as a collection of ideas, one after another, or as the same one that persists over time.
About the author
Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio founded in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. They live and work in the southern Chilean city of Concepcion and teach regularly at the PUC in Santiago de Chile and at the IIT in Chicago. They have been the curators of the Chilean Pavilion and selected for the International Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. They have edited monographic issues of A+U in Tokyo, 2G in Barcelona and the essay book Spatial Structure. Their built work has been distinguished with several international awards and widely exhibited, among other venues, at the FIAC in Paris, the Royal Academy of Arts in London and at the MoMA in New York.
