Archisuits

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Taking a slightly different approach to wearable architecture are Sarah Ross’s Archisuits. These suits are subject to strange shaped additions inside the material taken from the negative spaces around and the buildings which they are designed to fit around or onto in Los Angeles.

The Archisuits against the skyline
The use of negative space has also been explored by artists, albeit in a less mobile form. British artist Rachel Whiteread’s distinctly un-wearable pieces include: One Hundred Spaces, a series of resin casts of the space underneath chairs; and Ether, a plastercast a bath’s underside; and perhaps, most famously, House (1993), a life-size concrete cast of the inside of an entire east London Victorian terraced house. Sadly this was demolished by Tower Hamlets Council in 1994 to both howls of protest and joy from the other side, glad to be rid of an eyesore.