anarch
Prefix used by Gordon Matta-Clark, such as “anarchitect.” In an interview with Liza Béar, he says, “Our thinking about anarchitecture was more clusive than doing pieces that would demonstrate an alternate attitude to buildings, or, rather, to the attitudes that determine containerization of usable space…. We were thinking more about metaphoric voids, gaps, left-over spaces, places that were not developed.” He was interested in spaces on a “functional level that was so absurd as to ridicule the idea of function.” We see him working out these impossible ideas in writing, too, such as in his manuscript for Endless City, a proposal for Anarchitecture, which starts, “Etc. And shred a city. A direct and non productive response to form following function” (pp. 13-14), Ebony L. Haynes in Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L (2023). (Kremer, 2025)