From Epiphylogenesis to General Organology: Introduction to “The Epiphylogenetic Turn and Architecture: In (Tertiary) Memory of Bernard Stiegler”, Footprint 30

The work of Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020) provides invaluable material for rethinking the built environment as a sort of inorganic spatial memory that enables the evolution of life by means other than organic life. Following Stiegler’s theoretical turn toward epiphylogenetic processes, Footprint 30 is devoted to revisiting the built environment...

Machinic Phylum and Architecture

The chapter draws on the anti-substantivist and anti-hylomorphic legacy of two significant Deleuze and Guattari’s interlocutors: Raymond Ruyer and Gilbert Simondon. Ruyer vehemently opposed the logic of mechanicism with- out regressing to (active) vitalism. His masterpiece Neofinalism, yet to be fully appreciated in architectural circles, is an...

The Architecture of the Virtual: An Encounter Between Cognitive Neurosciences and Architecture

The philosophies of substance presuppose a subject which then encounters a datum. This subject then reacts to the datum. The process ontology presupposes a datum (firstness) which is met with feelings (secondness), and progressively attains the unity of a subject (thirdness). It is in this sense that our bodily experience is primarily an...

GIBSONISM: Ecologies of Architecture

There is widespread commitment to indirect realism and reductionism among architects. As Robin Evans diagnosed, "we are landed not only with a picture theory of vision, but with a pervasive picture method of construction for manufactured objects as well." We see with our eyes, don't we? The answer is no. The founder of the ecological approach to...