Sentences with phrase «subverting urban architecture»

Gordon Matta - Clark was an American artist best known for his site - specific artworks he made in the 1970s, whose practice introduced new and radical modes of physically exploring and subverting urban architecture.

Gordon Matta - Clark was an American artist best known for his site - specific artworks he made in the 1970s, whose practice consisted of exploring and subverting urban architecture.

His practice introduced new and radical modes of physically exploring and subverting urban architecture, and some of his most well - known projects involved laboriously cutting holes into floors of abandoned buildings or, as with Splitting (1974), slicing a suburban villa in two.