Constructions (Writing Architecture)

John Rajchman

ISBN 10: 0262680963 / ISBN 13: 9780262680967

Published by The MIT Press February 1998, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Constructions (Writing Architecture)
• Publisher: The MIT Press February 1998
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262680963
• ISBN 13: 9780262680967
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, JohnRajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze.

foreword by Paul Virilio. In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions of folding, lightness, ground, abstraction, and future cities, he embarks on a conceptual voyage whose aim is to help "construct" a new space of connections, to "build" a new idiom, perhaps even to suggest a new architecture. Along the way, he addresses questions of the new abstraction, operative form, other geometries, new technologies, global cities, ideas of the virtual and the formless, and possibilities for critical theory after utopia and transgression.

About the Author

Paul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including Speed and Politics, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, and The Accident of Art, all published by Semiotext(e).