2001 - 2002: House for a Superstar

Simon Herron, Susanne Isa

Design proposals influenced by circumstances of culture, landscape and environment. 'Thousands of Viewers Daily - Outdoor sells' - Billboard on the I-395 Looking through the widescreen of your car at cinemascope billboards everything seems familiar yet unknown. You speed by panoramic vistas and suddenly feel adrift in space.

Leaving Los Angeles you travel out and up to the desert, past the glitter of lights to enter the galaxy of stars.

"If L.A. is space, the Mojave is truly outer space."

The Future ahead, the Past reflected in the rear view mirror.

Boneyards of 747's, Graveyards of Cadillacs, Next Exit the Neon Playground.
In the Artificial Kingdom of Las Vegas visitors take daily tours of Luxor, Grecians serve cocktails, muzacs piped out to the pool of Paradise Ranch.

It has been observed that LA is a city of illusion "anything may turn out to be anything else, and there is no way of knowing because nothing has a shape of its own...."

Are you in a thatched Tahitian hut or in the South Seas, Disneyland or in a restaurant on La Cienega? Perhaps actually in the Chiropractor's waiting room, the pineapple sale at Safeway's or the House of a Superstar.

This year the unit will concentrate on work based in the Mojave and surrounding area. After all out in the Desert you can hear your hair grow and your breath gets taken away.