Mark Wigley is a historian, theorist, and critic who explores the intersection of architecture, art, philosophy, culture, and technology. He is Professor of Architecture and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. He received both his Bachelor of Architecture (1979) and his Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His books include We the Bacteria – Notes Toward Biotic Architecture (with Beatriz Colomina; Lars Müller, 2025), Konrad Wachsmann’s Television: Post-Architectural Transmissions (Sternberg Press, 2020), Passing Through Architecture: The 10 Years of Gordon Matta-Clark (Power Station of Art, 2019); Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation(Lars Müller, 2018); Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (with Beatriz Colomina; Lars Müller, 2016), and others.
He has made installations in Venice Biennales and curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, The Drawing Center, Columbia University, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Power Station of Art, and Milan Triennale. He was the co-curator of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial in 2016 with Beatriz Colomina, the curator of The Human Insect: Antennas 1886-2017 at Het Nieuw Instituut, Rotterdam in 2018 and “Passing Through Architecture: The 10 Years of Gordon Matta-Clark” at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai in 2019–20, and co-curated We the Bacteria – Notes Toward Biotic Architecture with Beatriz Colomina at the Triennale Milano in 2025-26.
Landezine talks to Mark Wigley about landscape as a form of human exceptionalism, the politics of soil, architecture’s long separation from microbial life, and why landscape design may now be one of the most politically charged fields of practice.
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