Deleuze and Guattari for architects / Andrew Ballantyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ballantyne, Andrew.

Series:

Thinkers for architects

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992.

Guattari, Félix.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

xii, 124 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari has been inspirational for architects and architectural theorists in recent years. It is regularly cited by avant-gardist architects and by students, but usually without being well understood. Deleuze and Guattari's first collaboration produced Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus, 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 philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, physics, art and literature, changing our preconceptions about absolutely everything along the way. After contact with their ideas, architecture becomes part of life's fabric, enmeshed in the things we think and do, whether we're trying to save a habitat or humming a tune as we walk down the street. Deleuze & Guattari for Architects is a perfect introduction for anyone who wants to find a way into their thinking, and who is more familiar with architecture than philosophy.

Contents:

1 Who? 1

No longer ourselves 1

Character-defining questions 2

Lines of flight 5

Away from the flock 9

Backgammon 11

Deterritorialization 13

2 Machines 18

Swarming 18

The case of Schreber 19

The book of the machines 23

Down with trees 25

Abstract machine 28

Immanence 29

Network 32

The body 33

3 House 38

Plateau 38

Actual buildings 41

Orpheus and Ariadne 50

Consolidadoa 53

House, earth, territory 60

4 Facade and Landscape 61

A walk in the mountains 61

White wall, black hole 64

Signifying 74

Radomes 76

Deserts 78

5 City and Environment 80

A little order 80

Environment - milieu 82

Disconnecting 87

Emergent form 94

Form and frame 96.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-118) and index.

ISBN:

0415421152

0415421160

0203934202

9780415421157

9780415421164

9780203934203

OCLC:

122291801