''prototype 180'' is an artwork by American

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Mary Ellen Carroll Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist who lives and works in New York City. The artist has exhibited at Whitney Museum, Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, ICA London, PS1-New York, The Menil Collection in Houston, and MUMOK in Vienna. Early life a ...

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. ''prototype 180'' is "the centerpiece of Carroll's Innovation Territories, an initiative co-sponsored by the Rice University Building Institute. ''prototype 180'' is located at 6513 Sharpsview Drive, Houston. Houston was self-selected itself as the site of the artwork because it lacks an official land-use policy. The artwork "will make architecture performative.""http://artforum.com/words/id=23335" It is literally a ground-shifting exercise, because it structurally involves the rotation, back to front, of a single-family, ranch-style house and its surrounding land in the development of

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. Following the rotation, the structure will be retrofitted and rehabilitated to become an occupied structure that will become an institute for the study of considered urbanism. In planning for 10 years, ''prototype 180'' is described as "reconsideration of monumentality that combines live performance, sculpture, architecture and technology.""http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=14815

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