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Ecologies of ArchitectureEssays on Territorialisation

By Andrej Radman

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Interprets architecture theory through the lens of Continental philosophy

Drawing on a range of philosophical texts, Andrej Radman brings together a collection of 11 of his essays, published over the last decade, to show that when a society manipulates its matter it is not a reflection of culture; it is culture.

To speak of ecologies of architecture is to break with judgement for experience. As Gilles Deleuze put it in his book on Nietzsche, it is not about justification, ‘but a different way of feeling: another sensibility’. If to think differently we have to feel differently, then the design of the built environment has no other purpose but to transform us. While engineering is solution-oriented, architecture stays with the problem so as to tease out a creative potential.

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Andrej Radman is one of the most insightful and interesting architectural theorists now at work. He is refreshingly meticulous in his treatment of architectural theory and Continental philosophy, and this collection of Radman's most important essays on theory from the past few years, is a significant and very welcome contribution to the domain of architectural theory.
Table of contents

Preface: Transversality at Work by Rosi Braidotti

Introduction: Under the Pixels, the Beach!

  1. Figure, Discourse: To the Abstract Concretely
  2. Architecture’s Awaking from Correlationist Slumber: On Transdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Specificity
  3. Northern Line
  4. Sensibility is Ground Zero: On Inclusive Disjunction and Politics of Defatalisation
  5. Architecture of Immanence
  6. The Impredicative City: Or What Can a Boston Square Do?
  7. Space Always Comes After: It Is Good When It Comes After; It Is Good Only When It Comes After
  8. Zigzagging: Bound by the Absence of a Tie
  9. 3D Perception ≠ 2D Image + 1D Inference: Or Why a Single Precise Shot Would Often Miss the Target, whereas a Series of Imprecise Shots Will Eventually Lead to a Hit
  10. Double Bind: On Material Ethics
  11. Involutionary Architecture: Unyoking Coherence from Congruence

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About the contributors

Andrej Radman

Andrej Radman is Assistant Professor of Architecture Philosophy and Theory at Delft University of Technology, where he coordinates the Ecologies of Architecture research group. Over the past two decades, his research has focused on the nexus between architecture and radical empiricism. He serves as a member of the National Committee on Deleuze and Guattari Scholarship, a founding editor of the TU Delft OPEN Publishing Ecologies of Architecture book series, and was Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed architecture theory journal Footprint (2011–2024). Radman is co-editor of Critical and Clinical Cartographies (2017), Architecture of Life and Death (2021), The Space of Technicity (2024), and Noetics Without a Mind (2024). He is the author of Gibsonism (2012) and Ecologies of Architecture: Essays on Territorialisation (2021). A licensed architect with a portfolio of built and competition-winning projects, Radman received the Croatian Association of Architects’ annual award for housing architecture in 2002. In 2023, he was honoured with the Mark Cousins Theory Award presented by DigitalFUTURES, recognising leading theorists in architecture and design for forward-thinking contributions to the field.

Rosi Braidotti

Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Honorary Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is a feminist Continental philosopher and she holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011); The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019); Posthuman Feminism (2022); The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022).