“As I walked up the bridge to the entrance, I immediately knew how special this place was,” says Daniel Arsham. though it was disappointing at the time, perhaps not getting into the architecture school at the Cooper Union in New York City was a blessing in disguise for prolific multimedia artist Daniel Arsham. Instead, he enrolled in the college’s equally famous art school and so, rather than making buildings, he pivoted to making art. But, ever since, he has explored issues of architecture, engineering, and a fictional sort of archaeology in work that always evokes a poetic conversation between past and future.
Upon graduating in 2003, Arsham returned to his hometown, Miami, where he and a group of friends rented a 1930s bungalow-style house, gutted it, and opened a gallery…
