The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel | 2007

In this exhibition he focused on concept made available by technology, rather than on technology itself.

De Lange took a very different approach in his work “sky scraper”. Imagine a designer sitting at his desk scribbling notes on a piece of paper. Getting nowhere fast, he crushes one of the sheets into a ball and tosses it into the waste paper basket; as it flies through the air, it miraculously endures a conceptual metamorphosis. The crumples paper ball is scanned and becomes a three-dimensional file, allowing the designer to manipulate the scale as he fancies :to recreate the form as a table object, or to develop it to a much larger degree, perhaps as an architectural object.

By Alex Ward, curator of architecture and design in the Israel Museum of Art.

Paper ball final model 3d printer, an architectural object

Curator: Alex Ward