Mark Wigley

New Zealand-born architectural theorist and historian (born 1956), longtime professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Wigley is an architectural theorist known for his scholarship on modern and contemporary architecture, media, and the discipline's intellectual history. He taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where he also served as dean, and his writing consistently reads buildings through the technologies, networks, and communication systems that surround them rather than as isolated objects.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: chronicler. Wigley wrote Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio, a book-length study that recasts R. Buckminster Fuller as a figure of the electromagnetic age. Rather than treating Fuller primarily as a structural or geometric innovator, Wigley argues that Fuller understood shelter as a communications medium — tracing how the 1928 Dymaxion House embedded radio into the home and how Fuller's whole project anticipated a world defined by invisible transmission and radiation. The book stands as one of the more theoretically ambitious recent interpretations of Fuller's work.

See Also

• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure
• Buckminster Fuller Inc. (Buckminster Fuller Inc.) — the book he wrote about Fuller
• Eva Díaz (Eva Díaz) — fellow scholar re-reading Fuller's experimental method
• Loretta Lorance (Loretta Lorance) — architectural historian and chronicler of Fuller

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.