Bricolage

The large Glass 1915-1923 Marcel Duchamp

materials such as lead foil, fuse wire, and dust. It combines chance procedures, plotted perspective studies, and laborious craftsmanship. Duchamp's ideas for the Glass began in 1913, and he made numerous notes and studies, as well as preliminary works for the piece. The notes reflect the creation of unique rules of physics, and myth which describes the work.

Bicycle Wheel, 1913 "ready made", Marcel Duchamp

Enzo Mari, Autoprogezzione

The Autoprogrettazione manual was created by Italian designer Enzo Mari in 1974 as a design guide to a collection of furniture that could be assembled from the most basic materials, using just a hammer and nails.

Lunar Lander, NASA Apollo Mission

Lunar Rover, Ducktape on mudguard

When most people think of emergency fixes in space, the first incident that comes to mind is the famous Apollo 13 mission. The astronauts fashioned duct tape and surplus materials into air filtration canisters in the lunar module to keep all three astronauts alive for the entire trip home

Tom Sachs, Space Programm 2007

Experimenting with models of varying scale ("Lunar Module (1:18)," 1999; "Crawler," 2003) has culminated in the realization of his own life-size SPACE PROGRAM.

Ghery House, Los Angeles, Frank Ghery

1970's that involved the "balance of fragment and whole, raw and refined, new and old" and would strike up controversy.

Bull`s Head, 1942, Pablo Picasso