Artist:
Barbara Visser (born 1967 in Haarlem, the Netherlands; lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and New York City, USA).

Materials:
Text and mute computer animation; 5 min and 39 sec.

Description:
“This work revolves around the critique that the current way of building does not accomodate the multiple social, professional, and psychological changes in peoples’ lives today. 
The text Transformation House I was submitted for an architectural competition to design an alternative dwelling for the new city of Leidsche Rijn in the Netherlands, organized by Bureau Beyond… For the final round of the competition, the animation was made, not as a design, but to visualize the concept of a structure expanding and shrinking as a consequence of the development of an individual life. 

Animation made in collaboration with Olivier Campagne at Artefactory, Paris.”
—”Transformation House I & II,” website of Barbara Visser.

“Visser is not immune to the myth-making machinations she exposes: several works here address the legacy of the Dutch designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld, a focus that unintentionally betrays her own cultural subjectivity. In Transformation House [I] (2006), for example, she writes a letter to Rietveld wondering why his modular Schröder House from 1924 has since failed to find much resonance with later generations, and has instead become a sterile relic.”
—Douglas Heingartner, review of Barbara Visser, Frieze, March 3, 2007.