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"Although highly regarded during his short life - and honored by artists and architects today - the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as "building cuts." Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buildings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs, and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a catalytic force in the creation of SoHo in the early 1970s. Through loft activities, site projects at the exhibition space 112 Greene Street, and his work at the restaurant Food, he participated in the production of a new social and artistic space."--BOOK JACKET. "In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s - particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices - and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs."--Jacket.

Deconstructivism (Architecture) --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Architecture, Deconstructivist --- Deconstructionism (Architecture) --- Deconstructivist architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- Influence. --- Influence --- Matta-Clark, Gordon, --- Matta-Clark, Gordon --- Matta-Clark, G. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In this book Wigley redefines the question of deconstruction and architecture. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, he opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and deconstruction, offering a way of rethinking the institution of architecture while using architecture to rethink deconstructive discourse. Wigley relentlessly tracks the tacit argument about architecture embedded within Jacques Derrida's discourse, a curious line of argument that passes through each of the philosopher's texts. He argues that this seemingly tenuous thread actually binds those texts, acting as their source of strength but also their point of greatest weakness. Derrida's work is seen to render architecture at once more complex, uncanny, pervasive, unstable, brutal, enigmatic, and devious, if not insidious, while needing itself to be subjected to an architectural interrogation. Wigley provocatively turns Derrida's reading strategy back on his texts to expose the architectural dimension of their central notions like law, economy, writing, place, domestication, translation, vomit, spacing, laughter, and dance. Along the way he highlights new aspects of the relationship between Heidegger and Derrida, explores the structural role of ornament and the elusive architecture of haunting, while presenting a fascinating account of the institutional politics of architecture.

Deconstruction (Architecture) --- Deconstructivism (Architecture) --- Architecture --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Architecture, Deconstructivist --- Deconstructionism (Architecture) --- Deconstructivist architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- Philosophy. --- Derrida, Jacques --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Derrida, J. --- Derida, Žak --- Derrida, Jackes --- Derrida, Zhak --- Deridah, Z'aḳ --- Deridā, Jāka --- Dirīdā, Jāk --- Деррида, Жак --- דרידה, ז'אק