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Contract, crowd, corpus and plasma. Architectural and social assemblages

Douglas, C
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This paper springs from Joseph Rykwert’s observation, in On Adam’s House in Paradise (1981), of a conceptual correlation between Marc-Antoine Laugier and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It discerns, in the condition of joints in Laugier’s Essay on Architecture (1753) and social bonds in Rousseau’s Social Contract (1762), an underlying

structural logic: what I will call an implicit theory of assemblage. From this initial reference point in the mid-eighteenth century, the paper moves to consider theories of crowds in the late nineteenth century as implicit theories of assemblage, and ultimately advocates the work of Gabriel Tarde as a basis for explicitation of these underlying theories.
Keywords
Architecture; Crowds; Assemblage; Architectural; Details; Marc-Antoine Laugier; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Joseph Rykwert; Gabriel Tarde; Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Date
2009
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Interstices, vol.10, pp.97-108
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Journal Article
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Auckland, NZ: Enigma
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