My thoughts exactly: "hey, if I get some boards from the DIY store and screw them together, I get a terribly uncomfortable chair. If Donald Judd does it, people will fork out 3500 dollars to get one."
Go ahead and do it. Shouldn't cost you more than 50 bucks for the plywood.
Judd is working with very simple elements to create a spectrum of cube spatial partitions. (Compare Red and Green chairs in frontpiece pic of the blog post. Note the recessed element in both.) This actually does take spatial design talent.
He is also working with color. A simple device of non-coated edges is providing 'structural' sense.
Finally, he's playing a little numbers game. Looks like all those chairs use 5 planes.
They suck as furniture, but are compact expressions of a genuine strain of architectural thought.
