About This Artwork

Hernan Diaz Alonso
American, born Argentina, 1969

Sur, Long Island City, New York, 2005

Acrylic and nylon
7.62 x 60.96 x 33.02 cm (3 x 24 x 13 in.)
Department of Architecture and Design Purchase Fund, 2006.311

Xefirotarch is one of the leading digitally based architecture studios in the world. Principal Hernan Díaz Alonso combines his wide-ranging influences with digital manipulation and distortion to explore the limits of beauty and scale. His monstrous constructions hover tantalizingly between the grotesque and the sublime, reintroducing an experimental notion of figuration into the discipline of architecture. The model for Sur, Díaz Alonso’s winning entry for the Museum of Modern Art/P.S.1 Young Architects Program, is made of an acrylic-nylon composite material threedimensionally printed from a computer program. The actual pavilion was constructed for a three-month period in P.S.1’s courtyard in Long Island City, New York.