Architectural and Urban Reflections after Deleuze and Guattari (Global Aesthetic Research)

This volume brings together architects, urban designers and planners and asks them to reflect and report on the (built) place and the city to come, in the wake of Deleuze and Guattari. The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuze and Guattari has had in the course of this movement, has given rise to new practices in architecture and urban theory. This interdisciplinary volume brings together architects, urban designers and planners, and asks them to reflect and report on the (built) place and the city to come in the wake of Deleuze and Guattari Architectural and Urban Reflections after Deleuze and Guattari 1 Contents 8 Introduction 10 Part I: Architecture and Urbanism: Arts of the Built Space 36 1 Schizoanalytic City 38 2 Deleuze, Space and the Architectural Fragment 54 3 Architectural Translations of Deleuze and Guattari’s Thought on the Concept of Place 70 4 The Skin of the Public Space 82 5 Bodies without Organs and Cities without Architecture 92 Part II: Architectural and Urbanist Toolkits 112 6 Gilles Deleuze and Chaos Theory 114 7 A Thousand Models of Realisation: Towards a Deleuzoguattarian Critical Urban Theory 132 8 Non-Correlational Athens 148 9 Architecture at the Age of Its Digital Production: The Force, Differentiation and Humanity of the Fold as an Architectural Principle 162 10 Design of Earth Movement: Objects, Buildings and Environment Conceived as Landscape Formations 172 11 Spatial Transcriptions of the Concept of the Fold in Architecture as a Landscape-Sensitive Approach 188 Part III: Vital Materiality 198 12 Laocoon and the Snakes of History 200 13 Reterritorialising Concrete as an Actor of Comfort in Architecture 218 14 Radicalising Architecture by Redefining the Monument 230 15 Diagrammatic Narratives: Graphic Fields of Rupture and Catastrophe 252 16 The Concept of Map in the Homeric Odyssey 260 Part IV: The Clinical 274 17 From the Exhaustion of the Dogmatic Image of Thought that Circumscribes Architecture to Feminist Practices of Joy 276 Selected Bibliography 292 Index 306 About the Editors and Contributors 310 "This interdisciplinary volume brings together architects, urban designers and planners and asks them to reflect and report on the (built) place and the city to come, in the wake of Deleuze and Guattari."--Provided by publisher Architecture And Urbanism: Arts Of The Built Space -- Architectural And Urbanist Tool Boxes -- Vital Materiality -- The Clinical