Mark Wigley

Details

Nationality

New Zealander

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

Reason

Subject

Human centred

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

Cited (with Ellen Lupton/Abbott Miller and Nadir Lahiji/Daniel Friedman) as having diagnosed in modernist architecture an aestheticization of hygiene that reveals anxieties around waste and formlessness.

Connections

• authored White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture
• authored Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire
• critiqued Architectural Phenomenology

Sources

1. Mark Wigley. The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt. MIT Press, 1993.
2. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 18 of 19
3. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 10 of 21
4. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 12 of 18