Home Safe

摘要

In the winter of 2013, while writing a book about the relationship between burglary and architecture, I met safe room designer Karl Alizade at his New Jersey warehouse. Alizade also works as an insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London, and at the time his low-slung workshop was filled with evidence from crime scenes that had been sent to him over the years for inspection. There were vaults with their metal backs sawn out; safes with their unhinged doors blasted open; discolored pieces of walls with their inner security panels sliced or burned clean through. However accidentally it had been curated, Alizade's warehouse resembled an avant-garde installation--somewhere between Sir John Soane's eccentric collection of architectural fragments and a Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition.