A Chris Burden Skyscraper, or Two, May Come to New York
Next week, Chris Burden’s 2003 sculpture Small Skyscraper (Quasi Legal Skyscraper) will be installed in the courtyard at a shopping venue in Pasadena, Calif., The Art Newspaper reports. The artist first got the idea for the four-story aluminum and plywood “concept house” when he was building his own house in 1991 and asked the architect “what was the smallest building you could build without a permit.” At the time it was 400 square feet and 35 feet tall. Ten years later, TK Architecture’s Linda Taalman and Alan Koch reached out to Mr. Burden about the design, and the idea of actually building these sculptures began to take hold. Read More
