(BIOLOGICAL) LIFE: THE PEDAGOGY OF AN ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT

Loo, S

(BIOLOGICAL) LIFE: THE PEDAGOGY OF AN ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT

Loo, S

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Issue Date:: 2007-10-05T01:24:14Z

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Loo, S
dc.date.accessioned	2007-10-05T01:24:14Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T02:35:14Z
dc.date.available	2007-10-05T01:24:14Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T02:35:14Z
dc.date.issued	2007-10-05T01:24:14Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19702
dc.description.abstract	This paper analyses the techniques and technologies mobilized under the imprimatur of biological life in architectural production beyond their manifestations as (bio)mimetic processes. The arguments do not take ‘life’ as a priori to architectural thinking, but as immanent to each enactment of technique or application of technology within the biological paradigm. Using the work of Roger Caillois on pyschasthenia as the collapse of space between an organism and its milieu, the analysis avoids elevating biological life to a transcendent concept. Biological life in architecture instigates the pragmatic concern for whether a philosophical or scientific concept works, or matters, regardless of whether it fits within an ontology or metaphysics. Thus, architectural production using biological life subscribes to a Deleuzo-Guattarian “pedagogy of a concept” – the creation of perceptual and affective habits that are self-jeopardising and highly idiosyncratic to ensure further concept formation.	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/481
dc.subject	immanence	en
dc.subject	pedagogy	en
dc.subject	biomimicry	en
dc.subject	biological life	en
dc.title	(BIOLOGICAL) LIFE: THE PEDAGOGY OF AN ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT	en
dc.type	Article	en
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Abstract:

This paper analyses the techniques and technologies mobilized under the imprimatur of biological life in architectural production beyond their manifestations as (bio)mimetic processes. The arguments do not take ‘life’ as a priori to architectural thinking, but as immanent to each enactment of technique or application of technology within the biological paradigm. Using the work of Roger Caillois on pyschasthenia as the collapse of space between an organism and its milieu, the analysis avoids elevating biological life to a transcendent concept. Biological life in architecture instigates the pragmatic concern for whether a philosophical or scientific concept works, or matters, regardless of whether it fits within an ontology or metaphysics. Thus, architectural production using biological life subscribes to a Deleuzo-Guattarian “pedagogy of a concept” – the creation of perceptual and affective habits that are self-jeopardising and highly idiosyncratic to ensure further concept formation.

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