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July 23, 2004
After a lengthy search Columbia’s
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
has named Mark Wigley its new Dean.
Wigley, interim dean of the school since
September 2003, succeeds Bernard Tschumi, who served as dean
for 15 years and who remains on Columbia’s faculty.
Wigley has served as guest curator for
exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Drawing
Center, New York; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal;
and Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam. He 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: Situationist Architectures From Constant’s
New Babylon to Beyond” (2001). In 1990, he received the
International Committee of Architectural Critics (C.I.C.A.)
Triennial Award for Architectural Criticism.
Prior to joining Columbia in 2000 as
director of advanced studios, Wigley taught at Princeton University,
where he became director of graduate studies in architecture
in 1997.
The selection process was far-reaching,
including Zaha Hadid, Wigley, and Beijing-based Yung Ho Chang.
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