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Tumbleweed is our response to the Request For Proposals issued by the Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park. The RFPasked architects and designers to propose a critical evaluation of the term, “folly,” and to propose such a structure to be built in Socrates.FollyThe folly is an architectural cupcake; it’s a smaller version of a bigger thing, but it isn’t simply a building shrunk down to size. It has a differentset of part-to-whole relationships than a “normal building.” Like the cupcake, the folly is meant to be consumed whole. The architectural experience is made more intense because of the larger relationship of outside to inside, frosting to cake. Follies are simple. There is no room for more than one big idea. There is no impression otherthan the first one, just a single intense rush of sensation prolonged by a second bite and maybe a third.The folly has no program other than simply to be a folly. It becomes architecture only in so far as its program is to signify architecture. For this reason, a folly can only exist in a landscape, because in landscape the folly distinguishes itself as being “not landscape” which is to say, “building.” Only in a landscape can one become truly conscious ofbeing “outside,” which allows the folly to provide a space which is other – by being “inside.”
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