Dezeen’s Top 10 Installations of 2017, featuring Mirage by Doug Aitken

American artist Doug Aitken built this house-shaped structure clad in mirrors, which reflects the surrounding desert landscape of the Coachella Valley.

 

The Mirage installation was modelled on a ranch-style suburban American house, and also found inspiration from the modernist ideas of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

 

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See a film of Mirage here

 

Image: Desert X installation view of Doug Aitken's Mirage, 2017, photography by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist and Desert X.

December 13 2017