ABSTRACT
In the prints and drawings collection at the Canadian Centre for Architecture is a first-floor plan drawing of John Hejduk's Wall House 2, also known as the Bye House. The reader's participation in making the interior and the emphasis on the building's elevations, presented as exterior and interior panels, begin to speculate on the documentation of buildings made by pre-fabrication methods, buildings that shift location during their lifespan, and temporary buildings. An interior spatiality of the house created through manual manipulation is demonstrated in two examples of books made in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. The Japanese architect Sutemi Horiguchi remade many of these in the 1960s as part of his historical work on sukiya architecture rather than as an exploration of a representational technique. In contrast to inferring inhabitation of the space through two-dimensional means, the artist's book offers a different interiority, a physical one formed through both its component pages and objecthood.
