ABSTRACT
In the place of a conclusion, this part of the book explores Duchamp’s architectural influences and his legacy on architectural design. It is primarily a collection of images of work by practitioners, who I call ‘defrocked Cartesians’. As we have seen in Chapters 1 and 3, I coined the term ‘defrocked Cartesians’ from a comment Duchamp made in an interview, referring to his own fascination with perspective and ruled drawing. He calls himself a Cartesian, but nevertheless défroqué (defrocked), pointing to his simultaneous desire to subvert the rules of the spatial representation technique through irony. Similarly to Duchamp all ‘architectural’ practitioners presented here celebrate but also question and exceed the conventions of architectural drawing.
