The Building as a Deleuzoguattarian Strata/Machinic Assemblage

Abrahams, Gareth ORCID: 0000-0003-0404-1056 (2019) The Building as a Deleuzoguattarian Strata/Machinic Assemblage. ARCHITECTURAL THEORY REVIEW, 23 (3). pp. 363-379.

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Abstract

What do we mean when we say that a building is an assemblage? To answer this question, we must first decide what we mean by ‘the assemblage’ and which areas of Deleuze and Guattari’s corpus we will use. In this paper I focus on one of two kinds of assemblage from A Thousand Plateaus: the machinic assemblage. Drawing on the third chapter of this core text, I show how and why this concept should be understood as complementary yet distinct from the often-neglected concept of the strata. I then illustrate these concepts through the architectural design process by discussing the creation of a physical and functional building, acts of (architectural) expression and as a contribution to one or more architectural languages. Using this insight, I argue that architecture provides us with a way to usefully illustrate and explore some of the complex and abstract concepts within Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Strata, assemblage, Deleuze and Guattari, architecture, building design
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2020 08:52
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 00:09
DOI:	10.1080/13264826.2019.1698397
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3070686