SECURITY THEATER

摘要

I bell in love with Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, AIA, and Charles Renfro, AIA, in the mid-1990s, when Diller and Scofidio lived, and all three of them worked, in a wondrously ramshackle studio above the Village Voice building in New York's Cooper Square. (Renfro's name wasn't on the letterhead yet; at the time, he was the office factotum, the standout among a handful of smart employees and interns.) The whole setup-the exposed steampipes, the thoughtful, soft-spoken couple, their young, hip staff-perfectly matched my mental picture of bohemia. Then there was the work itself, which simply blew my mind.