Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge Studies in Affective Societies)

Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari is the first sustained survey into ways of theorising affect in architecture. It reflects on the legacy and influence of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the uptake of affect in architectural discourse and practice, and stresses the importance of the political in discussions of affect. It is a timely antidote to an enduring fixation on architectural phenomenology in the field.

The contributors offer a variety of approaches to the challenges presented in discussing the relation between affect and architecture, and how this is contextualised in the broader field of affect studies. Ranging from evaluations of architectural and urban productions and practices, to inquiries into architectural experience, to modes of affective inquiry in education, to experimental affective writing, each contribution to this seminal volume suggests ways of developing a more sustained approach to a crucial thematic domain.

The volume will be of use to students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels; researchers, theorists and historians of architecture and related urban and spatial disciplines; the fields of social science and cultural theory; and to philosophy, in particular the studies of Deleuze and Guattari, and Baruch Spinoza.

Marko Jobst is a writer and researcher based in the UK. He has taught at a number of London schools of architecture, most recently as Architecture Undergraduate Theory Coordinator at the Department of Architecture and Landscape, Greenwich University. He has published on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and performative writing, and is the author of A Ficto-Historical Theory of the London Underground (2017).

Hélène Frichot is an Architectural theorist and philosopher, writer and critic. She is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, and Director of the Bachelor of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning University of Melbourne, Australia. Her recent publications include Dirty Theory: Troubling Architecture (2019) and Creative Ecologies: Theorizing the Practice of Architecture (2018).