Guests from the Future
A Window (Detail) from the Future (Case Study House)
Rekha Auguste-Nelson (Philadelphia, USA, 1991)
lives and works in New York, USA
Farnoosh Rafaie (Los Angeles, USA, 1988)
lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Isabel Strauss (Chicago, USA, 1990)
lives in Cambridge, MA, USA and works in Washington DC, USA
A riff on The Case Study House Program after the Second World War, Riff Studio’s Case Study House: Chicago responds to the economic model for repair outlined in Isabel Strauss’s request for proposals for Architecture of Reparations. The persecution of African Americans and Black peoples extends far beyond the legal end of slavery. Architecture of Reparations attempts to address this history by imagining a sitespecific future for acknowledgement, redress and closure. Case Study House: Chicago is a design for this future. A Window (Detail) from the Future (Case Study House) both integrates and alludes to protective domestic programming with techniques from crystal glass manufacturing and ‘ayeneh kari’ mirror mosaics to refract light and distort form. Obscuring residents like a kaleidoscope, the window acts as ornament to obfuscate figures on the inside so that they cannot be pinpointed or targeted easily from the street.
With the additional support of
African Futures Institute
