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  • By Jon Yoder
  • Source: Architecture, Film, and the In-between , pp 24-47
  • Publication Date: November 2023
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789387377_4
  • Language: English
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Affective architecture is everywhere. Practically every emerging design trajectory grounds itself in some conception of affect. Like other cultural spheres including film, fashion and food, architecture is increasingly expected to elicit emotional and sensorial, affective responses. Unfortunately, architectural discourse on affect remains trapped between two ontological traditions: the essentializing phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, and the post-humanist metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze. This essay identifies postphenomenology—with its projective embrace of vision and technology and rejection of essentialism—as one inviting alternative to these polarizing ideological traditions. The hedonistically ocular-centric work of Los Angeles architect John Lautner (1911-1994) offers an ideal postphenomenological case study. His affective spaces reproduce the effects of widescreen cinema by exploiting the immersive opportunities of panoramic vision. This essay takes Lautner's houses, along with the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and his cinematic interpreters, as lenses through which to focus on issues of postcinematic immersion in architecture and film.

Keywords: apparatus ; architectural theory ; architecture and film ; cineramic ; design research ; digital fabrication ; immersive media ; John Lautner ; Los Angeles architecture ; Modern architecture ; ocular ; post-phenomenology ; vision and visuality ; visual media ; widescreen architecture

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Architecture After Affect
Intellect , 24 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789387377_4
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