ABSTRACT
If architectural theory since 1968 could be reduced to a single inquiry, it would be the inquiry after the subject productions of architecture (what Guattari called an ethico-aesthetics). The interrogations of subjectivity, stretching back to the earliest debates held in the East-coast American universities, could be characterized as a disappointed history of the architectural subject rendered both in deficit and excess. Both turn on the same unstable ground left vacant by the bracketed Cartesian subject. One indulges the inscription of the void (empty center) while the other indulges the post-phenomenological embrace of the aesthetic as purely given.
