Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of Architecture addresses this problem and does so in a way that represents a marked departure from predominant responses which as the book shows do not address the core issue. The book addresses this problem by focusing on the question what is architecture? and responds to this question by developing the immanent structural logic of architecture that enables it to work not only as an instrumental thinking practice but as a practice of creative thinking. This means that it alone determines its issues problems and priorities and precisely because of that it has the capacity and cogency to destabilise indeed pierce holes in the system in which it operates. The Resistant Object of Architecture draws on various theoretical sources from the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and the philosophy of Alain Badiou to contemporary architectural theory. In contrast to the predominant view of today it demonstrates that architecture has an affirmative transformative capacity. This book is an ideal read for those interested in architectural theory and history analysis of contemporary architecture and philosophy of architecture. |The Resistant Object of Architecture A Lacanian Perspective | Architecture
