Bare architecture : a schizoanalysis / Chris L. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Chris (Chris L.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Human factors.

Architecture.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural exploration of the interface between architecture and the body. Chris L. Smith skilfully introduces and explains numerous concepts drawn from poststructural philosophy to explore the manner by which the architecture/body relation may be rethought in the 21st century. Multiple well-known figures in the discourses of poststructuralism are invoked: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Jorges Luis Borges and Michel Serres. These figures bring into view the philosophical frame in which the body is formulated. Alongside the philosophy, the architecture that Smith comes to refer to as 'bare architecture' is explored. Smith considers architecture as a complex construction and the book draws upon literature, art and music, to provide a critique of the limits, extents and opportunities for architecture itself. The book considers key works from the architects Douglas Darden, Georges Pingusson, Lacatan and Vassal, Carlo Scarpa, Peter Zumthor, Marco Casagrande and Sami Rintala and Raumlabor. Such works are engaged for their capacities to foster a rethinking of the relation between architecture and the body."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Foreword ; Acknowledgements ; List of Figures ; Prologue

Part 1. Bodies and Architectures. 01 Lying Figures ; 02 Earth and Territory

Part 2. Poststructural Virtues. 03 The Impersonal ; 04 The Indiscernible ; 05 The Imperceptible

Part 3. Architectural Procedures. 06 Symptomatology ; 07 Wayfaring ; 08 Speaking

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350015821

1350015822

9781350015791

1350015792

OCLC:

1166370068