EPS Recycling, Save That Stuff, Boston, MA, 2023. Photo: Jane Messinger.

Balancing Acts, Revolution Recovery, Allentown, PA, 2019. Photo: Billy Dufala.

Mylar balloon used in NASA’s Echo 1 Satellite, 1960. Photo: NASA.

Azulejo panels in Horror Vacui, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013. Photo: Ryan Moritz.

Place of Assembly, Leather District Park, Boston, MA, 2021. Photo: Jane Messinger.

Spent sand pile, Kohler, WI, 2023.

Pallets of densified EPS scrap, Save That Stuff, Boston, MA, 2023.

Inventory, Villa Terra Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee, WI, 2018. Photo: Kevin Miyazaki.

Promotional photograph for Styrofoam, 1949. Photo: Dow Chemical Company Historical Image Collection.

Sand Stools, Kohler, WI, 2023.

Externalities, US Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023. Photo: Andrea Ferro.

Window Dressing, Columbus, IN, 2021. Photo: Sterling Yun.

No Frills, Buffalo, NY, 2016.

All That Is Solid, Space p11, Chicago, IL, 2019. Photo: Nathan Keay.

Balancing Acts, Revolution Recovery, Allentown, PA, 2019. Photo: Theo Mullen.

No Frills, Buffalo, NY, 2016. Photo: Biff Hendrich.

100 E. Delavan Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Former General Motors factory by Albert Kahn Associates.

Window Dressing, Columbus, IN, 2021. Photo: Hadley Fruits.

Place of Assembly, Chinatown Backyard, Boston, MA, 2021.

EPS Geofoam foundations, Maggie Daley Park, Chicago, IL, 2013.

Balancing Acts, Revolution Recovery, Allentown, PA, 2019. Photo: Billy Dufala.

Spent sand pile, Kohler, WI, 2023.

Place of Assembly, Chinatown Backyard, Boston, MA, 2021.

Horror Vacui, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, 2013. Photo: Francisco Nogueira.