Maroš Krivý, “Industrial Architecture and Negativity: The Aesthetics of Architecture in the Works of Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson and Bernd and Hilla Becher,” Journal of Architecture s 15, 6 (2010), 827–852.
This article explores the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson and Bernd and Hilla Bechers through the lens of “architectural negativity”. Attending to the invisible, ignored and suppressed, this collective body of work questions the fetishism of industrial heritage and interprets architecture as a collective and contested process.
This article explores the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson and Bernd and Hilla Bechers through the lens of “architectural negativity”. Attending to the invisible, ignored and suppressed, this collective body of work questions the fetishism of industrial heritage and interprets architecture as a collective and contested process.