Other Spacesuits claims the Cold-War era Apollo spacesuit as the most exuberant piece of material and cultural production in history, and it also recognizes it as one among many in an ontological genre of self-contained atmospheric envelopes–though some of them no longer resemble 'suits' at all–from the gas mask to the indoor shopping mall to the 24-hour news cycle. This project uses the Apollo spacesuit as a catalyst for work on three architectural, but traditionally separate, discourses: the atmospheric envelope (often the building envelope), making practices (or the methods of design and production), and the aesthetic projects allied with every designed object.
