Deleuze and Architecture

Hélène Frichot is Assistant Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden. She has co-curated the Architecture+Philosophy public lecture series in Melbourne, Australia (http://architecture.testpattern.com.au) since 2005. Between 2004-2011 she held an academic position in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. While her first discipline is architecture, she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney (2004). Dr Stephen Loo is Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture & Design, University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published widely on language, affect and the biophilosophy of the contemporary subject, which includes ethico-aesthetic models for human action, posthumanist ethics and experimental digital thinking. His current research project concerns the connections between ethics, psychoanalysis and the space of the entomological imagination. He has a PhD from the University of Sydney on the ontology of architectural theory through the relations between Heideggerian and Deleuzian thought.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Exhaustion and the Exhausted: Deleuze AND Architecture, Hélène Frichot and Stephen Loo; Part I: Siting; 1. Becomings: Architecture, Feminism, Deleuze, before and after the Fold, Karen Burns; 2. Northern Line, Deborah Hauptmann and Andrej Radman; 3. Why Deleuze, Why Architecture, Marko Jobst; Part II: Constructing; 4. Deleuze and the Story of the Superfold, Hélène Frichot; 5. Objectile: The Pursuit of Philosophy by Other Means? Bernard Cache; 6. The Architect as Metallurgist: Using Concrete to Trace Bio-Digital Lines, Mike Hale; 7. Assembling Architecture, Kim Dovey; Part III: Gathering; 8. Toward a Theory of the Architectural Subject, Simone Brott; 9. The Holey City: Walking along Istanbul’s Theodosian Landwalls, Catharina Gabrielsson; 10. Deleuze, Architecture and Social Fabrication, Andrew Ballantyne; 11. Politics + Deleuze + Guattari + Architecture, Adrian Parr; Part IV: Caring; 12. The Ethological City, Cameron Duff; 13. Architectures, Critical and Clinical, Chris L. Smith; 14. Abstract Care, Stephen Loo; 15. Making a Rhizome or Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari, Doina Petrescu, Anne Querrien, Constantin Petcou; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Through Deleuze, the editors argue provocatively, even theory ‘exhaustion’ can produce valuable new engagements with the built-environment. This collection of fascinating essays provides a much-needed overview of architecture and philosophy’s very Deleuzian friendship. The issues tackled are highly relevant to the crises of our times. Required reading – especially for non-Deleuzians!