Deleuze & Guattari for Architects

by Ballantyne; Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780415421157
• ISBN10: 0415421152
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari has been inspirational for architects and architectural theorists in recent years. It has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Greg Lynn and David Chipperfield, and is regularly cited by avant-gardist architects and by students, but usually without being well understood. The first collaboration between Deleuze and Guattari was Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which was taken up as a manifesto for the post-structuralist life, and was associated with the spirit of the student revolts of 1968. Their ideas promote creativity and innovation, and their work is wide-ranging, complex and endlessly stimulating. They range across politics, psychoanalysis, physics, art and literature, changing preconceptions along the way. Deleuze & Guattari for Architects is a perfect introduction for students of architecture in design studio at all levels, students of architecture pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in architectural theory, academics and interested architectural practitioners.

Author Biography

Andrew Ballantyne is Professor of Architecture at Newcastle University, UK

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	p. ix
Illustration Credits	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Who?	p. 1
No longer ourselves	p. 1
Character-defining questions	p. 2
Lines of flight	p. 5
Away From the flock	p. 9
Backgammon	p. 11
Deterritorialization	p. 13
Machines	p. 18
Swarming	p. 18
The case of Schreber	p. 19
The book of the machines	p. 23
Down with trees	p. 25
Abstract machine	p. 28
Immanence	p. 29
Network	p. 32
The body	p. 33
House	p. 38
Plateau	p. 38
Actual buildings	p. 41
Orpheus and Ariadne	p. 50
Consolidation	p. 53
House, earth, territory	p. 60
Facade and Landscape	p. 61
A walk in the mountains	p. 61
White wall, black hole	p. 64
Signifying	p. 74
Radomes	p. 76
Deserts	p. 78
City and Environment	p. 80
A little order	p. 80
Environment- milieu	p. 82
Disconnecting	p. 87
Emergent form	p. 94
Form and frame	p. 96
Further Reading	p. 100
Notes	p. 104
Bibliography	p. 108
Index	p. 119
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