| Title |
A Study on Topological Relationship between Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy and Rem Koolhaas' Architecture |
| Keywords |
Deleuze ; Becoming ; Multiplicity ; Disjunctive Synthesis ; Event Surface |
| Abstract |
The goal of this research is to study the topological relationship between Gilles Deleuze's philosophy and Rem Koolhaas' architecture. As the mechanical & deterministic & hierarchial & transcendent paradigm is no more valid in the pluralistic & multifarious contemporary society, a new trend of thinkers have demanded more relational & non-linear & non-hierarchial & immanent paradigm. In this context, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze had tried to substitute his immanent vitalism of Becoming for the transcendent essentialism of Being of western metaphysics, as he has analyzed contemporary society and culture based upon heterogeneous multiplicities and disjunctive synthesis. As Holland Architect Rem Koolhaas has also seen the essence of our contemporary city life as the uncertainty and fluidity of people and goods, his theoretical agony and architectural and urban experiments are well resonated with Deleuzian philosophical experiments as well. So in this Deleuzian context, Koolhaas' design strategies have accommodated the uncertainty and fluidity of contemporary life, and utilized 1) the void of multiplicity 2) the surface of becoming 3) the disjunctive programming to overcome the deterministic functionalism and hierarchial composition of Modern Architecture, for the new urban and architectural possibilities. |