In this era of overwhelming digital production in architecture, it is unclear what gets discarded and what gets maintained in the ocean of virtual tools and information. Contemporary digital archives and contemporary, digitally-designed buildings both seem to continually overwrite themselves.

Cutting up a building is not a new idea. Gordon Matta-Clark, an American artist trained in architecture and a New York native, famously took up a chainsaw to violently cut into buildings bare-chested.