Fleabite: Gordon Matta-Clark and programmatic experimentation

摘要

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), one of the lesser known architects of the second half of the twentieth century, studied architecture at Cornell University between 1962 and 1968.2 Although he had always been part of an active circle of artists and architects with whom he shared his radical ideas, Matta-Clark was generally excluded from the architectural milieu since his proposed interventions were thought to be unsuitable for accommodation. His exclusion from the architectural scene was marked; following his Window-Blow-Out(s) project in 1976, as Mary Jane Jacob has pointed out, his colleagues - including Peter Eisenman and the members of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) - found it very hard to accept an architect with a BB gun in hand.3