Like a reversible figure, these images oscillate between ambivalent functions and significations, a sacred place is echoed in a shopping world, a symbol of revolutionary utopian architecture hosts surveillance devices, the ornament of a baroque garden is enlarged beyond human proportions transforming the physical texture of the earth and finally a shopping mall mirrors Bentham’s ideal prison. 4.2., Empty Section of the New South China Mall in Dongguan, Province of Guangdong/China, February 13, 2010).ġPyramid, sphere, ornament, and atrium: The images of these four puzzle pairs show four iconic architectural forms in different historical periods and functional settings and reveal the ambiguous relation between form and function as well as between form and signification. 4.1., Interior Panopticon Cellhouse, Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois/USA) Wikimedia Commons, David290 (fig. 3.2., Palm Jumeirah resort in Dubai/United Arab Emirates under construction, 2005) Norman Johnston, The Human Cage: A Brief History of Prison Architecture, New York 1973, p. 3.1., Orangerie in Versailles) Commander Leroy Chiao from the International Space Station (fig.
2.2., Project for La Maison des Gardes Agricoles in Maupertuis, France, 1784) (fig. 2.1., Waihopai Spy Base near Blenheim, New Zealand has its satellite dish cover deflated by protesters overnight, April 30, 2008) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (fig. 1.2., Giza Plateau on the outskirts of Cairo/Egypt, 1988) Derek Flynn / Marlborough Express (fig. 1.1., The Pyramid Arena initially known as the Great American Pyramid on the banks of the Mississippi River, Memphis/Tennessee, 1994) Elke Hindemith (fig. The original pictures are from: Marilyn Bridges (fig. Selection of four pairs of puzzles, each puzzle 560 pieces, 42 x 30 cm. All images come from Anna Artaker and Meike Schmidt-Gleim, Counterparts, 2013.
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