MILLIØNS (ZEINA KOREITEM + JOHN MAY) WITH KIEL MOE AND PETER OSBORNE

In 2020, MILLIØNS collaborated with Kiel Moe and Peter Osborne, professors in the School of Architecture, McGill University, to present The Ghost Acres of Architecture (2020) at Taipei Biennial. The installation displays data and spatial information regarding the Seagram Building—an iconic modernist building in Manhattan designed by Mies van der Rohe, completed in 1958. The time from the first moment of extraction of its raw materials up to its present realities is presented through dynamic interactive visualisation techniques that lay bare the immense territorial reach of just one single building project. The project evokes a broad range of evidence—drawing together digital projections and raw geological and architectural elements—to explicate the planetary reach of architecture, making design practice far less abstract and much more literal as a genre of terrestrial activity.

Ocula 2020