Abstract
This article is a critique of architectural history’s tendency to overdetermine
in thinking about practice and theory in general, and in thinking
the relationship between architecture and spirituality in post-Tridentine
ecclesiastical architecture in particular. It first demonstrates what is meant
both by over-determination and resistance to interdisciplinarity within
mainstream architectural history before critically exploring in relation
to this how post-Tridentine architecture and spiritual life or religious
devotion might be thought together, the sorts of relationships between the
two that may be thought to take place, and asks where this relationship
might be located. Suggesting that it might be profitable to follow Deleuze’s
philosophy of the Baroque in refusing the tripartite division between a field
of reality (the world) and a field of representation (in his case the book, in
ours, architecture) and a field of subjectivity (the author, the architect),
and rather to adopt like him, the notion of rhizome — without beginning
or end, always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo,
indeterminate. The article seeks to consider Baroque architecture
as rhizomatic construction, rather than the usual (and unhelpful)
preoccupations with it as dichotomous, expressive, or ‘propagandistic’.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 42-61 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | field |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2007 |
Bibliographical note
field: Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/Keywords
- architectural history
- interdisciplinary
- discipline
- Naples
- baroque
- fold
- complexity
- gender