Abstract 04/05

by Mark Wigley

Abstract presents the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University as a multifaceted laboratory for research and experimentation through a catalogue of exceptional student work, faculty texts, and images of the events that characterize the atmosphere of the school. It has an introductory text by Dean Mark Wigley and includes work conducted by each of the school's programs – Architecture, Urban Design, Historic Preservation, and Real Estate Development. This newest volume of abstract includes projects from the design studios of Hernan Diaz Alonso, Karl Chu, Lise Anne Couture, Laurie Hawkinson, Steven Holl, Jeffrey Kipnis, Greg Lynn, LOT/EK, Jurgen Mayer, and Lars Spuybroek among many others. This edition of Abstract is the second designed by Stefan Sagmeister and includes a DVD of the various events held at the school.

192 pages, Spiral-bound

Published December 1, 2005

About the author

Mark Wigley is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP. He served as Dean from 2004 to 2014. Wigley has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture and is the author of 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 (1993). He co-edited The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationalist Architectures from Constant’s New Babylon to Beyond (2001).

In 2005 he co-founded Volume magazine with Rem Koolhaas and Ole Bouman as a collaborative project by Archis (Amsterdam), AMO (Rotterdam), and C-lab (Columbia University). Wigley curated the exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture at The Museum of Modern Art, and others at The Drawing Center, New York; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam.

Mark Wigley was awarded the Resident Fellowship, Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism (1989), International Committee of Architectural Critics (C.I.C.A.) Triennial Award for Architectural Criticism (1990) and a Graham Foundation Gran (1997). He received both his Bachelor of Architecture (1979) and his Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.