Bare Architecture

Chris L. Smith is Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Technê, The University of Sydney, Australia.

• Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Figures Prologue Bodies and Architectures01 Lying Figures 02 Earth and Territory Poststructural Virtues03 The Impersonal 04 The Indiscernible 05 The Imperceptible Architectural Procedures06 Symptomatology 07 Wayfaring 08 Speaking 09 Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

Located in that intimate and transitory sensation between losing and finding oneself in a world, Chris L. Smith presents a poetics of poststructuralist thinking-with-architecture. He unfurls the delicacy of a bare life of architecture emerging between spasms of embodied subjectivity and designed milieus. Smith elegantly demonstrates how the productions of architecture arouse desire at the same time as dissipating the subject in its relation to space. He elaborates an aesthetics for architecture that treats every spatial encounter as hyper-sensory and extraordinary.