Routledge The Resistant Object of Architecture - Lacanian Perspective

The Resistant Object of Architecture examines how contemporary architecture risks becoming merely complicit within globalised capitalist systems. This Routledge Research in Architecture volume takes a philosophical departure from conventional critiques, investigating the fundamental question of what architecture truly is. By developing an immanent structural logic, the book reveals how architecture can function beyond its instrumentalisation, resisting absorption into profit-driven mechanisms. Grounded in Lacanian theory, this work offers architects, theorists and students a rigorous framework for understanding architecture's potential as a genuinely resistant force rather than a passive tool of commercial interests.