Will Insley

System as city

Will Insley’s work centers on architecture understood as an internally coherent system rather than a functional discipline.

Through the long-term project ONECITY, he developed a complete architectural universe governed by its own rules of scale, hierarchy, and relation. The work unfolds as a closed logic, independent of site or construction. His drawings and models establish conditions rather than proposals. Each component exists in strict relation to the whole, reinforcing architecture as a conceptual structure.

The project advances through accumulation rather than progression, maintaining coherence over decades. Insley’s work demonstrates how architecture can function as pure structure, sustained entirely by internal discipline.

Will Insley was an American conceptual artist known for speculative architectural systems developed through drawings and models.

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