MACHINE +++ INSTRUMENTAL IDEA OF ARCHOTECTURE

the rhythm of the affects the rhythm of the nature slow's d... The idea of the landscape as a huge device... The idea of the architecture as a device but against this Utopian notion that it should solve human's problems. rather than the device which is obsolescence and stands for something that's important for us. Architecture is the maker of the places on the one hand and maker of devices on the other hand. a divice that nutrally just reflect and immitate the pattern of everyday life. ofcourse it's figure affects the space, but it has no practical function but producing a guantitive and gualitive pattern that shows the rhythm of an ape


Abstract machine
Deleuze and Guattari’s ways of thinking are above all practical (‘Given a
certain machine, what can it be used for?’ 1972, 3) but they aim for a high
level of generality. If I recognize the same pattern in the way that my
psychology builds up from a swarm of interconnected desiring-machines,
and in the way that a crowd-psychology can form in an assembly of
individuals, then I can take the view that the same mechanism is at work in
both cases. The important thing here is the mechanism – the machine – that
brings about these effects. It is a real thing that is at work, producing these
effects, but it is abstract. It is embodied in the different people and particular
crowds that one has encountered or heard about. We might notice it in
ourselves when we act impulsively and unreasonably, for example by making
romantic attachments, or by being unable to concentrate on a boring but
necessary task.

Deleuze & Guattari for Architects (Thinkers for Architects)
by: A. Ballantyne