Architect: Gordon Matta-Clark
CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review
7 May 2022
CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review7 May 2022
The Gordon Matta-Clark archive arrived at the CCA in Montreal 20 years ago. Shortly thereafter, it was used as part of an ‘archival exercise’: Out of the Box: Price, Rossi, Stirling + Matta Clark (23 October 2003–6 September 2004). That first ‘Out of the Box’ prefigures the one undertaken for this publication,… Read More
Notes on the 2016 Summer School
21 August 2016
Notes on the 2016 Summer School21 August 2016
Found in translation At first it seemed hugely unfair to invite an audience of some thirty adept critics to review a week’s drawing work by eight students, the more so in the dauntingly Olympian cultural setting of Hauser & Wirth. The review was held in Smiljan Radic’s 2014 Serpentine Pavilion,… Read More
Future Scenarios, Part II
31 May 2016
Future Scenarios, Part II31 May 2016
By Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
FRAGMENTS: THE BUILDING SITE AND THE RUIN Louis-Jean Desprez turns to another legendary city of the ancient world — Alexander’s capital in Egypt — to advocate in a dream view of Alexandria in construction what great ambitions might be aroused in the new king of Sweden, after his predecessor, who… Read More
Gordon Matta-Clark
19 January 2017
Gordon Matta-Clark19 January 2017
By Nicholas Olsberg
The Genesis of Architecture (and the Genetics of an Anarchitect) During a poetry reading at St Mark’s Church in the East Village of New York in 1973 Gordon Matta-Clark announced that he would draw on a roll of butcher paper an account of the history of architecture with a single… Read More
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