Deleuze & Guattari for Architects

137 Pages·2007·5.47 MB·English

by  Andrew Ballantyne

DELEUZE AND GUATTARI FOR ARCHITECTS
Thinkers for Architects
Series Editor: Adam Sharr, Cardiff University, UK
Editorial Board
Jonathan A. Hale, University of Nottingham, UK
Hilde Heynen, KU Leuven, Netherlands
David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Architects have often looked to philosophers and theorists from beyond the
discipline for design inspiration or in search of a critical framework for practice.
This original series offers quick, clear introductions to key thinkers who have
written about architecture and whose work can yield insights for designers.
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Irigaray for Architects
Peg Rawes
THINKERS FOR ARCHITECTS
Deleuze and
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Architects
Andrew Ballantyne
First published 2007 1
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 6
Ballantyne, Andrew.
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Deleuze and Guattari for architects / Andrew Ballantyne.
p. cm. -- (Thinkers for architects series) 8
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Deleuze, Gilles, 1925–1995. 2. Guattari, Félix, 1930–1992.
3. Architecture – Philosophy. I. Title. 20
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Contents
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Illustration Credits xi
Acknowledgements xii
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
Consolidation 53
House, earth, territory 60
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Signifying 74
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Deserts 78
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5 City and Environment 80
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A little order 80 10
Environment – milieu 82 1
Disconnecting 87 2
Emergent form 94 3
Form and frame 96 4
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Further Reading 100 6
Notes 104 7
Bibliography 108 8
Index 119 9
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Series Editor’s Preface
Adam Sharr
Architects have often looked to thinkers in philosophy and theory for design
ideas, or in search of a critical framework for practice. Yet architects and
students of architecture can struggle to navigate thinkers’ writings. It can be
daunting to approach original texts with little appreciation of their contexts and
existing introductions seldom explore architectural material in any detail. This
original series offers clear, quick and accurate introductions to key thinkers who
have written about architecture. Each book summarizes what a thinker has to
offer for architects. It locates their architectural thinking in the body of their
work, introduces significant books and essays, helps decode terms and provides
quick reference for further reading. If you find philosophical and theoretical
writing about architecture difficult, or just don’t know where to begin, this
series will be indispensable.
Books in the Thinkers for Architectsseries come out of architecture. They pursue
architectural modes of understanding, aiming to introduce a thinker to an
architectural audience. Each thinker has a unique and distinctive ethos, and the
structure of each book derives from the character at its focus. The thinkers
explored are prodigious writers and any short introduction can only address a
fraction of their work. Each author – an architect or an architectural critic – has
focused on a selection of a thinker’s writings which they judge most relevant to
designers and interpreters of architecture. Inevitably, much will be left out.
These books will be the first point of reference, rather than the last word, about
a particular thinker for architects. It is hoped that they will encourage you to
read further; offering an incentive to delve deeper into the original writings of a
particular thinker.
The first three books in the series explore the work of: Gilles Deleuze and Félix
Guattari; Martin Heidegger; and Luce Irigaray. Familiar cultural figures, these are
thinkers whose writings have already influenced architectural designers and
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