L'architecture, Entre Réel Et Symbolique - Alain Badiou

Synopsys:

Starting with the  question

‘What is architecture as a work of art (oeuvre),

if we refuse to make it dependent

on the transcendent logics of power and faith?’  

Alain Badiou begins with a thesis

that is extremely stimulating for thought:

‘the intrinsically divided nature

of architectural subjectivity as such,

and therefore the impossibility

of building a unified subjectivity

with regard to the architectural phenomenon’.

This thesis,

which is crucial

because it can give rise to the idea

that architecture precedes the Subject,

leads Alain Badiou to pronounce

a shattering definition of architecture

that is also the demand of his ethics:

Architecture is the violent interval between the Real and the Symbolic.

This little book inaugurates

a new way of thinking about architecture.

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