The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian Perspective (Routledge Research in Architecture) - Hardcover

Ceferin, Petra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367624400 ISBN 13: 9780367624408

Verlag: Routledge, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of Architecture addresses this problem, and does so in a way that represents a marked departure from predominant responses which, as the book shows, do not address the core issue.

The book addresses this problem by focusing on the question "what is architecture?," and responds to this question by developing the immanent structural logic of architecture that enables it to work not only as an instrumental thinking practice, but as a practice of creative thinking. This means that it alone determines its issues, problems, and priorities, and precisely because of that it has the capacity and cogency to destabilise, indeed pierce holes in the system in which it operates.

The Resistant Object of Architecture

draws on various theoretical sources, from the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and the philosophy of Alain Badiou, to contemporary architectural theory. In contrast to the predominant view of today, it demonstrates that architecture has an affirmative, transformative capacity.

This book is an ideal read for those interested in architectural theory and history, analysis of contemporary architecture, and philosophy of architecture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Petra Ceferin is an architect practising architectural theory and philosophy of architecture and is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, where she teaches architectural theory and history.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367624400
• ISBN 13: 9780367624408
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 151
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