Mark Wigley is professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He served as Dean from 2004 to 2014. Wigley has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture. In 2005 he co-founded Volume magazine with Rem Koolhaas and Ole Bouman as a collaborative project by Archis (Amsterdam), AMO (Rotterdam), and C-lab (Columbia University). Wigley curated the exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture (1988) at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and others at The Drawing Center, New York; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam. His books include The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt (Mass., MIT Press, 1993), White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (MIT Press, 1995), Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire (010 Publishers, 1998), and, more recently, Buckminster Fuller, Inc. (Lars Müller, 2015). Together with Beatriz Colomina, he is Chief Curator of the 2016 Istanbul Design Biennial.
5 Oct – 12 Dec 2016
