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.
