Interviews
Mark Wigley Interview / Volume / Part 2
08.11.08 / 2007 · Columbia University · Interview · Mark Wigley · Media · New York · USA · Volume
Mark Wigley. Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Auckland, New Zealand [1979] and Ph.D. from that same institution in 1987. Since 2004, Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture [NY] Co-curator –along with Philip Johnson– of the MoMA exhibition “Deconstructivist Architecture” [1988]. In 2005, he founded together with Rem Koolhaas and Ole Bouman the publication Volume, a project by Archis [Amsterdam], AMO [Rotterdam] and C-LAB [New York].
The content on this interview is uneven. Wigley goes not only through highly lucid moments (the diagnosis of the current situation of the academia or the insights about periphery, for example) but also through extremely narcissistic and contentious moments. Elite caprices (or also “I’m a rebel because the first world made me one”).
Nevertheless, it’s rather necessary to listen to an intellectual who holds great power in the development of our discipline. An intellectual located in the very first link of the discussion chain (just as additional information, he’s married to Beatriz Colomina) An intellectual who –from his privileged position– is trying to subvert the current machinery of Universities.
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