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This seminar focuses on artistic projects that intervene in the sphere of architecture. The work and writing of Gordon Matta-Clark, who used the term "anarchitecture" to describe abandoned buildings he cut, will be an important focus of our analysis. Projects by the Situationist International, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, David Hammons, Rachel Whiteread, Kryzsztof Wodiczko and others will also be studied in-depth. We will also study projects by selected contemporary architects, including Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, and Shigeru Ban. Many of these sculptural, video, photographic and site projects in the U.S., Europe and Asia pose questions about private and public space, respond to mass cultural production and "throwaway" architecture, or raise questions about architecture, power, and class. (Haywood)

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