Diller + Scofidio pushes the boundaries of contemporary architecture to rethink its relationship to the arts. The studio’s transdisciplinary approach can be seen in Automarionette. Recalling the work of Marcel Duchamp—which has significantly influenced the studio’s ideology—the drawing depicts an architectural apparatus that holds a male body suspended in air, in an elemental expression of architecture and the space that it surrounds. The horizontal position of the figure is regulated by a counterweight system that adjusts to gravity. A modified version of the structure was produced for the performance piece The Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate (A Delay in Glass), which took place at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Duchamp Centennial in 1987.