‘Tonight August 3rd 1973 my only known cousin died in an incredible way’, he wrote. ‘His talk on the phone with his mother was interrupted by “the ceiling’s falling” ... He and his wife were living in the Broadway central that was demolished by an unknown force making it collapse instantly without warning. All around the accident the city assembled its emergency gear. Crowding and hysteria dissolved into a reaffirmation of immediate disintegration.’
Excerpt: Gordon Matta Clark's diary. From "Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta Clark and Le Corbusier." By James Attlee. Tate Papers, full text here.
