The intimate territory of operations on the material was similar to what one encounters with regard to the body; a new skin that was connected and restrained through: dimpling, piercing, suturing — all familiar intrusions and deformations of body.The work for us became a geography of the uncanny, predi- cated on the conflict of comfort and dis - cipline: it was not the patient that was restrained, but the bench itself. Inherent paradoxes between tectonic/organic, rigid/ fluid, inviting/formidable were left unre - solved, and up to the user to navigate.
Kuth/Ranieri is a multi-disciplinary architecture studio, whose work is informed by the discourse of politics, psychology and pop culture, and tempered by the pro- gressively standardized building industry. The work is inscribed with cultural and tectonic attitudes to anchor it to program, place and time.
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