Deleuze and Architecture

Critiques the legacy and ongoing influence of Deleuze on the discipline and practice of architecture

This collection looks critically at how Deleuze challenges architecture as a discipline, how architecture contributes to philosophy and how we can come to understand the complex politics of space of our increasingly networked world.

Since the 1980s, Deleuze’s philosophy has fuelled a generation of architectural thinking, and can be seen in the design of a global range of contemporary built environments. His work has also alerted architecture to crucial ecological, political and social problems that the discipline needs to reconcile.

Key Features

• 15 essays by interdisciplinary scholars including John Rajchman, Elizabeth Grosz and Brian Massumi
• Shows Deleuze’s influence on the emerging biotechnological paradigm and new practices of participatory design
• Engages with contemporary approaches to the theory and practice of architecture to provide radical agendas for the practice of Deleuzian philosophy

List of Contributors

• Karen Burns, University of Melbourne
• Deborah Hauptman, Delft University of Technology
• Andrej Radman, Delft University of Technology
• Marko Jobst, University of Greenwich
• Hélène Frichot, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
• Bernard Cache, Independent architect and furniture designer
• Mike Hale, Architect at Archispace
• Kim Dovey, University of Melbourne
• Catharina Gabrielsson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
• Cameron Duff, Monash University
• Andrew Ballantyne, Newcastle University, UK
• Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati
• Chris Smith, University of Sydney
• Stephen Loo, University of Tasmania
• Simone Brott, Queensland University of Technology
• Doina Petrescu, University of Sheffield
• Constantin Petcou, University of Sheffield
• Anne Querrien, University of Sheffield