Gordon Matta Clark - Profile and Work

Gordon Matta Clark is an American Born qualified architect in which he studied at Cornell University, though afterwards he decided not to embark on a conventional architecture career. He came from a artists background, his brother was also an artist. After he graduated from University he developed a style of architecture called Anarchitecture which was heavily influenced by art and surrealism.

He is widely recognised among the art and architecture society for his 'building cutting' approach. He used ranging types of media to communicate his work such as photography, filming, video and even typography. The examples of his famous work shown below are both incredibly sincere, experimental and distinctive. The building cuts show fragmentation and disfigurement of buildings that are so used to being seen as untouched and structurally integral, bringing forward mixed emotions about the structure itself and its immediate surrounding context. (images from google images)