PASSAGE

In tribute to those who preceded us, we have built a pavilion to act as a PASSAGE to evoke the presence of those who toiled on the grounds of the Alta Vista plantation in Waller County, where hundreds of individuals were once enslaved.
Crafted from paper, upcycled from grass harvested from the very same grounds, symbolizes our commitment to preserving this history. Its materials are intentionally designed to degrade in their initial placement, seamlessly reintegrating with the earth from which they were sourced, just as we strive to reintegrate narratives of these plantations into our memory.

Bill Prices' career has spanned three decades, during which time he has practiced and produced work in eleven different countries. He has practiced professionally in Switzerland and the Netherlands, where he spent four years with OMA/Rem Koolhaas. There he acted as Research and Development Director and saw the Villa Bordeaux (Time Magazine called this house the most important private residence of the twentieth century") through to completion. Bill collaborated with Ai Weiwei in China, after which Ai Weiwei picked Bill's work to include in Phaidon's 10 x 10-3 Monograph.