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The Transverse Face: Architecture X Culture
Citation
Loo, S, The Transverse Face: Architecture X Culture, Cultural Crossroads: SAHANZ 2009, 2-5 July 2009, Auckland, NZ, pp. 39. ISBN 978-0-473-15065-5 (2009) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
The theoretical framework for this paper arrives from the cultural crossings
between the work of Japanese architect Shin Takamatsu and French
philosopher Felix Guattari on a dynamic conception of subject formation and
citizenship of space that is different from the kind of ecstasies celebrated in
phenomenology. The paper draws on Guattari's concepts of transversality or
crossings that produce an irreducible uniqueness in architecture, and
'faciality' which describes a 'redundancy in the machinic unconscious' that
bears upon the semiology of cultural construction, in relation to Takamatsu's
architecture. This is a concept of culture not based on subjective identities or
transcendent communities, but emerges at the transversal occasions in
architecture as material works themselves. In this approach, architecture
forfeits its quest for cultural identity through form, as identity becomes the
result of mere happenstance. The architectural sense in cultural formation is
therefore invested not in a predefined public, but one based on the figure of
the onlooker and the passer by, an emergent public who are citizens by
having nothing in common, except by the moment of their enchantment.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Research Division: | Built Environment and Design |
Research Group: | Architecture |
Research Field: | Architectural design |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in built environment and design |
UTAS Author: | Loo, S (Professor Stephen Loo) |
ID Code: | 62265 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Deposited By: | Architecture |
Deposited On: | 2010-03-11 |
Last Modified: | 2015-02-16 |
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