Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari''s philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core Deleuzian/Guattarian philosophical concept and one key work of architecture which evokes, contorts, or extends it.Challenging the idea that a concept or theory defines and then produces the physical work and not vice versa, Chris L. Smith positions the relationship between Deleuze and Guattari''s philosophy and the field of architecture as one that is mutually substantiating and constitutive. In this framework, modes of architectural production and experimentation become inextricable from the conceptual territories defined by these two key thinkers, producing a rigorous discussion of theoretical, practical, and experimental engagements with their ideas.>

Préface
A critical analysis of the relationship between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and 21st-century architecture.

Auteur
Chris L. Smith is Professor of Architectural Theory at The University of Sydney, Australia.

Résumé
This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core Deleuzian/Guattarian philosophical concept and one key work of architecture which evokes, contorts, or extends it. Challenging the idea that a concept or theory defines and then produces the physical work and not vice versa, Chris L. Smith positions the relationship between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and the field of architecture as one that is mutually substantiating and constitutive. In this framework, modes of architectural production and experimentation become inextricable from the conceptual territories defined by these two key thinkers, producing a rigorous discussion of theoretical, practical, and experimental engagements with their ideas.

Contenu
Foreword Acknowledgements List of Figures 00 Preamble Part 1 Sympathies 01 Folds , Forms and Forces 02 Territories, Concrete and Corporeal 03 Sense and Representation 04 Assemblages Part 2 Exploration 05 Constructivism and the Machine 06 Appropriation, Encastement and Eating 07 Schizoanalysis and the Reckless 08 Empiricism and the Radical Part 3 Experimentation 09 Islands, Chaos and Habits 10 Micropolitics and Desire 11 War Machines, the Smooth and Striated 12 Expressivity, Affordance and Affirmation Part 4 Minor Architectures 13 Art, Flesh and House 14 Ethico-Aesthetics 15 Sensation and the Inside 16 Affect and the Outside Notes Bibliography Index