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Author:   Chris L. Smith (Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9781350015814

ISBN 10:   1350015814
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   19 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Figures Prologue Bodies and Architectures 01 Lying Figures 02 Earth and Territory Poststructural Virtues 03 The Impersonal 04 The Indiscernible 05 The Imperceptible Architectural Procedures 06 Symptomatology 07 Wayfaring 08 Speaking 09 Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

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Located in that intimate and transitory sensation between losing and finding oneself in a world, Chris Smith presents a poetics of poststructuralist thinking-with-architecture. He unfurls the delicacy of a bare life of architecture emerging between spasms of embodied subjectivity and designed milieus. Smith elegantly demonstrates how the productions of architecture arouse desire at the same time as dissipating the subject in its relation to space. He elaborates an aesthetics for architecture that treats every spatial encounter as hyper-sensory and extraordinary. -- Helene Frichot, Associate Professor and Docent Director of Critical Studies in Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, University in Stockholm, Sweden Chris L. Smith's passionately embellished Bare Architecture is proof of what it means to be done with the principle of non-contradiction. His schizoanalysis lives up to the promised logic of included middle where (or is it when?) here-and-now actively coexists with otherwise-or-whatever. At last one can wholeheartedly recommend the long-overdue clinical critique of architecture's proverbial propensity for over-coding. Most importantly, the reader (to come) is given the sense of what the architecture of immanence does. -- Andrej Radman, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Located in that intimate and transitory sensation between losing and finding oneself in a world, Chris Smith presents a poetics of poststructuralist thinking-with-architecture. He unfurls the delicacy of a bare life of architecture emerging between spasms of embodied subjectivity and designed milieus. Smith elegantly demonstrates how the productions of architecture arouse desire at the same time as dissipating the subject in its relation to space. He elaborates an aesthetics for architecture that treats every spatial encounter as hyper-sensory and extraordinary. -- Helene Frichot, Associate Professor and Docent Director of Critical Studies in Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, University in Stockholm, Sweden

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Chris L. Smith is Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Technê, The University of Sydney, Australia.

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