This graduate research seminar will examine ambitious artistic projects that interven in the sphere of architecture. The work and writing of Gordon Matta-Clark, who used the term "anarchitecture" to describe the abandoned buildings he split and cut into, will be an important focus of our analysis. Projects by Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Richard Sera, Rachel Whiteread, Renee Green and others will also be studied in-depth. Many of these sculptural, video, photographic and site projects pose questions about private and public space, respond to mass cultural production and "throwaway" architecture, or raise problems about architecture, power, and class. In addition to writings by the artists and art historical studies, a range of relevant modernist and post-structuralist theories will be discussed.