Museums & Collections
Works held in permanent collections, archives, and major exhibitions worldwide
Permanent Collections
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York, USA- Tohoku Historical Museum project 680.1995
Architectural model — acrylic sheet, wood with oil stain, metal, and paint, 5 × 30 × 60 in. Jeffrey P. Klein Purchase Fund. Exhibited in Architecture and Design Drawings: Rotation 2, 2005.
- I-Scapes 1.0 551.2010.a-c
DV player, video, Plexiglas, and wood, 16 × 12 × 12 in. Gift of Frederieke Taylor. Exhibited in Applied Design, 2013–14, and Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture, 2010–11.
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Documentation photograph of the Fluxspace 3.0 M_Scapes installation at Documenta XI, Kassel, 2002.
- Wing House — 25 works 61.2015 / 62.2015.a-b
Comprehensive holdings: two architectural models (paper/cardboard/acrylic/polystyrene and polystyrene/wood/paint), digital renderings, three plans, two sections, exploded axonometric, perspective, Flux 3.0 M-Scape video (color, silent, 2 min 15 sec), five Venice Biennale documentation photographs by Christian Richters, and a photo by Richters. Committee on Architecture and Design Funds. Featured in Endless House: Intersections of Art and Architecture, 2015–16.
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Five documentation photographs by Christian Richters of the installation at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. Committee on Architecture and Design Funds.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, USA-
Red pneumatic pavilion installation from the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2000. Gift of The Bohen Foundation. 35 × 13 × 13 ft. View on The Bohen Foundation.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA)
San Francisco, USA- I-Scapes 1.0 99.255.A-D
miniDV player, digital videotape, Plexiglas, and wood. 16⅝ × 12 × 12 in.
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Digital drawings from the Hyperfine Splitting body of work, acquired 1999.
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France-
Architectural models and project materials acquired following the Non Standard Architectures exhibition, 2003–04. Curated by Frédéric Migayrou.
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Rotterdam, The Netherlands-
miniDV player, digital videotape, Plexiglas, and wood. Edition of 10.
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Architectural model of the Floriade pavilion, Haarlemmermeer.
- Crematorium Beukenhof
Architectural model.
FRAC Centre-Val de Loire
Orléans, France-
First-prize winning competition entry, 1988. A 500-meter horizontal inhabitable structure spanning a Los Angeles highway — museum, aquariums, gardens, theater, cinemas. Featured in ArchiLab exhibitions at Orléans (1999) and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2004–05).
Archives
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
Montreal, Canada-
miniDV player, digital videotape, Plexiglas, and wood. Edition of 10.
- NYSE Project Records AP184
Complete archive of the Three Dimensional Trading Floor, MarkeTrac, OrderTrac, and Advanced Trading Floor Command Center. Approximately 50,600 digital files (73.2 GB), 71 drawings, 43 optical discs, 32 folders of textual material. Acquired as part of the Archaeology of the Digital research program.
Exhibition History
Mori Art Museum
Tokyo, Japan- ArchiLab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950–2005
Major survey of 220 projects by 90 architects drawn from the FRAC Centre and Centre Pompidou collections. Curated by Marie-Ange Brayer, Frédéric Migayrou, and Nanjo Fumio. Exhibition design by Kengo Kuma. December 2004 – March 2005.
Architekturmuseum der TUM
Munich, Germany-
Asymptote’s work featured in this landmark survey of computation in architecture, October 2020 – June 2021. Curated by Teresa Fankhänel.
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Karlsruhe, Germany-
Large-scale media installation projected onto the facade of Schloss Karlsruhe as part of the Schlosslichtspiele festival, 2017.