ABSTRACT
At the same time as the phenomenological position was developed, post-
structuralism, deconstruction, critical theory and psychoanalysis began
to be mined by designers and theorists. These “post-structuralists” do not
necessarily share a common “style” or define a school of thought, nor is it my
intention to conflate divergent positions. However, since the late 1970s, their
texts and projects have attempted to open the possibility of a post-humanist
architecture. More specifically to this book, such a program often targets the
relation between architecture and the body since anthropomorphism seems
to epitomize architecture’s entrenched humanism. As a result, their projects
and texts are filled with references to alternative models of corporeality,
such as blobs, rhizomes, cyborgs, mutants and prosthetic supplements.
