- “The collaborative project Anarchitecture (1974), however, demonstrates how the language of modernism, particularly the polemical and epigrammatic Towards a New Architecture by the French modernist artist and architect Le Corbusier, was very much part of his raw material.”
Anarchitecture
noun; derivation Affixation
The push back of the traditional notion of architecture, largely in areas of buildings, cities and urban planning. As seen from the prefix “an-“, it means push back, opposed to, reject, disagree, it can show that the people pushing for the idea of anarchitecture wants to reverse the norms of existing architecture practice.
Etymology : Affixation of the prefix “an-” to “architecture” to form “anarchitecture”
Source : (James Attlee, Tate Papers, Spring 07) http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/07/towards-anarchitecture-gordon-matta-clark-and-le-corbusier
Last modified: 28 November 2017