Deleuze & Guattari for Architects

by Andrew Ballantyne

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 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.

Genres: Architecture, Philosophy, Theory, Nonfiction

136 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 2007

Reviews

[Kamakana · Rating 4 out of 5]

210315: how useful this work might actually be for professional architects is difficult to ascertain, but for me it is a very useful intersection of 'planes'- or 'plans'- by introducing some thoughtful conceptual questioning. it is useful that now it is possible to see d's concepts of 'territorialization' as literal, or indeed the conflicts of various plans- artistic, pragmatic, political, economic- and suggests that architecture best be viewed as 'first' art, which honour i would say music has, but then there is the cliche that architecture is frozen music... at any rate, this is a brief, thoughtful book, likely to stimulate questions, gesturing to a few unusual artworks to get the ideas across, eg. Thelma and Louise, Dangerous Liaisons movies, the ideas like rhizomatic versus arboreal models of thought in everything from sciences to politics, then one of the best description of the 'body without organs' pg. 35, how we can think humans as 'desiring machines', how we must see the tick (insect which drops on warm mammals from trees, gorges on their blood, drops to ground and lays eggs in flesh or floor) as machine, etc...

[Myriam Rodriguez Del Real · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creo que me esperaba un pelín, pero está guay porque te ayuda a entender ciertos conceptos de ambos autores (lo explica de forma clara y minuciosa) y, además, lo lleva hacia el tema de la arquitectura, el territorio y las ciudades (esto último lo desarrolla poco, por eso esperaba más).

[Raymond Maxwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

who knew this book would be all about poetry?

[Felipe Jiménez · Rating 5 out of 5]

más sobre filosofía, poesía y conceptos de los autores que sobre arquitectura pero total