Name: The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture
Uploaded: 2008-10-02T01:00:00Z
Duration: 19 min 3 s
Description: In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.

In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.

The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture

Architecture can be more than buildings, serving as a tool to unsettle assumptions and awaken the senses. At Swiss Expo, a pavilion made entirely of fog dissolved boundaries, creating a formless space where visitors wandered through clouds and even drank water from the structure itself. Projects like the Blur Building and Alice Tully Hall use subtraction, interference, and even robotic drills to challenge conventions and blur the lines between spectacle and absence. By stripping away expectations of what spaces should do, these works invite people to see, hear, and feel the built world in new ways.