Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark and Le Corbusier


Window Blowout 1976. Photograph mounted on board.
"Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), who trained originally as an architect, is best known for his spectacular ‘building cuts’. These have often been seen as an outright rejection of the architectural profession. The collaborative project Anarchitecture (1974), however, demonstrates how the language of modernism, particularly the polemical and epigrammatic Towards a New Architecture by the French modernist artist and architect Le Corbusier, was very much part of his raw material. ..."
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NY Times - Back in the Bronx: Gordon Matta-Clark, Rogue Sculptor
Bronx Museum - Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect
amazon: Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect
vimeo: Anarchitecture, the Architecture

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