Petrushikhina, Svetlana V. The Concept of “Body without Organs” in the Theory of Architecture of the Late 20th Century

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Title The Concept of “Body without Organs” in the Theory of Architecture of the Late 20th Century
Author email s.petrushikhina@gmail.com
About author Petrushikhina, Svetlana V. — Ph. D. student. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation; s.petrushikhina@gmail.com; SPIN-code: 5256-8480; ORCID: 0000-0002-1584-8616
In the section Art Theory DOI10.18688/aa2313-8-58
Year 2023 Volume 13 Pages 723–733
Type of article RAR Index UDK 72.01 Index BBK 85.11
Abstract

The article considers the reception of the Deleuzian term ‘body without organs’ by Arie Graafland, Ignasi de Sola Morales and Greg Lynn. The listed authors use this concept in different contexts. Ignasi de Sola Moralez employs the notion ‘body without organs’ in order to describe the architectural imagery of the late capitalism. He believes that this Deleuzian term can reveal the invisible mechanisms, by means of which architecture incorporates itself in economic, cultural, and political dimensions of social life. Arie Graafland uses the ‘body without organs’ term as a critical tool to analyze the program of Downtown Athletic Club (DAC) given by Rem Koolhaas in ‘Delirious New York’. Graafland supposes that the DAC program itself could be understood as a ’body without organs’ in architecture. Greg Lynn applies this notion in order to justify his own design strategy, with which he creates ‘blobs’ — flexible topological structures molded by an external force. Hence, such meaning of the architectural ‘body without organs’ implies the projection of a future building in the virtual reality of CAD software. Despite the differences, all authors mentioned above employ the Deleuzian concept of the ’body without organs’ for the same purpose. The use of this term helps them to demonstrate the dependence of the architectural form on external forces.
Keywords
Reference Petrushikhina, Svetlana V. The Concept of “Body without Organs” in the Theory of Architecture of the Late 20th Century. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 13. Eds A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — Lomonosov Moscow State University / St. Petersburg: NP-Print, 2023, pp. 723–733. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2313-8-58
Publication Article language russian
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