Mark Wigley is a professor at GSAPP, Columbia University (New York), where he served as dean from 2004 to 2014. He has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture. His books include: Passing Through Architecture: The 10 years of Gordon Matta-Clark; Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation (2018); Buckminster Fuller INC: Architecture in the Age of Radio (2015); Casa da Musica / Porto (2008), Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper Architecture of Desire (1998), White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (1995); and The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt (1995).
Wigley co-authored Are we Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (2016) with Beatriz Colomina while they served as co-curators of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial. He also curated the exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1988), as well as others at The Drawing Center, New York; the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; the Witte de With Museum and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; and The Power Station of Art, Shanghai. Mark received his degree in architecture (1979) and his Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
