Date of publication: 1992, Semiotext(e) Publications, New York.

Synopsis

This critically acclaimed book is a radical attempt to design theory and write architecture. This book displays graphic, formal or technologically mediated methods to develop advanced theory, and, at the same time, is an attempt to use writing as a way to develop advanced architecture. The attempt here was to show that a refocused emphasis on the material presentation of advanced theory produced new multiplied architectural meanings, in order to argue for an expansion and liberation of the graphic, formal or technologically mediated methods of pursuing experimental theory in design. A new relationship of agencing between design and design theory is suggested here: Theory has a material condition in its writing and designed objects do engender multiple meanings.

The book is a collection of highly layered and graphically complex projects, specifically designed for appearing in Semiotext(e)/Architecture, by collaborative teams of architectural and design firms, design theoreticians, filmmakers, etc. Collaborators included: Thom Mayne, Angélil/Graham, Diller+Scofidio, Hani Rashid, Jesse Reiser, Neil Denari, Lebbeus Woods, Mehrdad Yazdani, Félix Guattari, Greg Ulmer, Avital Ronell, Catherine Ingraham, Bob Somol, Atom Egoyan, Allucquere Roseanne Stone, Brian Jenkins, Tom Bonauro, Margo Chase, R/Greenberg, Rudi Vanderlans, Scott Makela, Rick Valicenti, David Carson, Barry Deck.

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