Flesh: Architectural Probes : The Mutant Body of Architecture

The work of New York-based architects Diller + Scofidio is consistently at the cutting edge of current thought, helping to radically redefine the role of the architect and architecture in contemporary society. Targeting the body as 'a site of transient inscriptions, inseparable from program,' they constructed Flesh, a book/project that, in their words, 'maps out strategies for 'contractual space' in which architecture can perform critically within encoded spaces of privacy and publicity.' The result is a dynamic publication that is not so much a book about their projects as it is a reworking of their projects -- interwoven with multiple strands of text and imagery, Flesh is a new 'indexical structure' that allows the reader to determine diverse paths through the document.

Diller + Scofidio is a collaborative team involved in cross-disciplinary work that incorporates architecture with the performing and the visual arts.