Print Email Facebook Twitter Reclaiming What Architecture Does Title Reclaiming What Architecture Does: Toward an Ethology and Transformative Ethics of Material Arrangements Author Gorny, R.A. (TU Delft Teachers of Practice; TU Delft OLD Methods & Analysis) Date 2018 Abstract Learning to account for material formation as 'embodied and embedded, relational and affective' figurations amounts to nothing less than an ethical project. This paper speculates on the agentic status of material arrangements to address a certain impasse yet to be overcome in the productive understanding of the built environment. In its central parts, it respectively revisits two favorite clichés of architectural theory—the Foucauldian dispositif (apparatus) and the Deleuzo-Guattarian agencement (assemblage). Therein I will reclaim their different conceptions of arrangements with the aim to outline where architectural theory could advance a radically more productive understanding of the built environment. The paper here proposes a tactical alliance with the flat, monist, and process-ontological angles of new materialist perspectives. Proposing that there is a clear project waiting for post-critical theory, the paper concludes with some consideration on how architectural theory could affirm this new theoretical agenda. Subject Architecture TheoryArrangementsDispositifsAssemblagesEthologyMaterial Milieus To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:000a4724-681e-4c8e-a3fa-112621cf6193 DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2018.1481809 ISSN 1755-0475 Source Architectural Theory Review, 22 (2), 188–209 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 R.A. Gorny Files PDF Reclaiming_What_Architect ... ements.pdf 1.22 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:000a4724-681e-4c8e-a3fa-112621cf6193/datastream/OBJ/view