FUNCTION OF THE CONCEPTS FIGURATIVE AND FIGURAL IN MACHINE OF ARCHITECTURE PETER EISENMAN

• Authors: Zervan Marian , Mitášová Monika
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In our lecture, we focus on the terms figurative and figural as defined by Francois Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze in his book on Francis Bacon. We examine these terms’ roles in Peter Eisenman’s architectural thinking and design. Eisenman became interested in the reflection of Deleuze’s philosophy after he collaborated with Jacques Derrida. There are various aspects of Deleuze’s influence on Eisenman to be explored. The first utilizes Deleuze’s term fold. The second considers Eisenman’s version of a diagram elaborated in dialogue with Deleuze’s term diagram. Moreover, finally, the third points towards Deleuze’s terms mentioned above, figurative and figural and their role in Eisenman’s construction of the term and project of the interstitial space. Our lecture traces Eisenman’s understanding of figurative and figural and asks how interstitiality has become an argument in the problematization of both heterogeneous and affirmative aspects of architecture in critical architectural thinking.

Keywords

EN

FIGURATIVE; FIGURAL; DIAGRAM; AFFECTIVE SPACE; PETER EISENMAN

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3 - 12

Contributors

author

Zervan Marian

• Katedra teórie a dejín umenia, Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, 814 37 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

author

Mitášová Monika

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2023-0001