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Hacia una arquitectura menor

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La arquitectura ya no puede limitarse al arte de hacer edificios, también debe inventar la política de deshacerlos. Jill Stoner aborda a lo largo de estas páginas la construcción de una arquitectónica menor, una forma de operar (en) el espacio que nos rodea. Frente a las ruinas de un paisaje lleno de construcciones en desuso y centros comerciales, modelados por arquitectos heroicos, nos propone adquirir la mirada afilada de un hacker, periodista o manitas. Es decir, devenir arquitectxs menores.

Las arquitecturas menores, movilizadas desde los bajos fondos de las estructuras de poder, surgirán en ocasiones en el interior de otras arquitecturas –vivas u obsoletas-. Se volverán a veces incapturables y escurridizas ante miradas indiscretas. Celebrarán sin complejos su fragilidad y su contingencia. Emergerán, en todo caso, desde la resistencia y el deseo colectivo para transformar la realidad que las rodea.

Apoyándose en la literatura, el cine y el pensamiento del siglo XX, Stoner traza los vectores, las estructuras y elementos de una nueva gramática del espacio. Parte del derrocamiento de los cuatro grandes mitos que sustentan el pensamiento hegemónico de la Arquitectura - la dicotomía interior-exterior, la autonomía del objeto, la heroicidad del arquitecto y el binomio cultura-naturaleza- para proponer nuevas posibilidades de construcción y destrucción del espacio. Estas páginas construyen un intenso y completo manual desde el que abordar el “detritus” de hechos construidos de un paisaje urbano lleno de oportunidades y un complejo lenguaje desde el que responder a las formas mayores de la Arquitectura.

210 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

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177 reviews101 followers
November 3, 2025
Un estudio sobre la "literatura del espacio" (Robbe-Grillet, Proust, Poe, Orwell, Atwood, Borges...) y las "arquitecturas literarias" y los "libros" de piedra a los que llamamos edificios, tomando a Kafka como el maestro absoluto de las atmósferas domésticas asfixiantes. Todo ello con el propósito es invitar a los creadores de espacios a devenir arquitectxs menores frente a las locuras banales de la última arquitectura neoliberal.

En resumen, un ensayo denso y desafiante para el lector promedio, con un enfoque atípico, que me recuerda en su dificultad a aquellos textos de Manfredo Tafuri que leía en mis años mozos.
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January 12, 2025

3.5 Stars!

Stoner wanders into some interesting spaces and places here, drawing heavily from Kafka and Deleuze and seemingly obsessed with the idea of Euclidean anything. For such a short work she appears to be in no rush to get to her point and instead seems to be in a more whimsical and restless mood, buzzing around ideas, seemingly reluctant to set in the concrete foundations of her deeper point, getting side-tracked and distracted by some really interesting ideas.

Although I quite enjoyed many of her jumping off points and their subsequent digressions, I’m not sure I could tell you exactly what a “minor architecture” is?...We get a lot of literary theory, political insight and historical lessons, but often the link to architecture seems transitory and tenuous at best?...And to be fair she does give herself an out very early on when she says –

“As we begin to investigate what minor architecture might mean, we must be prepared for its precise nature to elude capture.”
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25 reviews3 followers
January 13, 2014
Minor architecture is a worthwhile opposition to the ingrained systems and assumptions of "major" architecture, and Stoner's use of D&G and Kafka makes the distinction clear. But the book's intentional piecemeal progression and patchwork of examples (falcons, Torre de David, Moby Dick?) don't add enough to the discussion.
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May 2, 2015
Minor architecture, a complexly written book, and the subject matter perhaps disjointed and in parts. Overall brings to life how architecture should be something we merit as been modest. That we should take into consideration all facets of possibility and thinking to create a richer understanding of the juxtapositions of architecture and literature.
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May 29, 2014
I left the practice of architecture to become a computer programmer based in large part to my love affair with Deleuzian philosophy. This book reunited me with my first love! We are reunited with a new understanding! Wonderful read
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February 5, 2017
Too much Kafka. It would have worked better for me if it had either less literary theory or much more literary theory.
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