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- Awarded the 2025 Architectural Theory Book of the Year
- Demonstrates the potential of Lacanian psychoanalysis for reviving architectural theory
- Provides a new architectural point of view for Lacanian studies
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)
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This book seeks to revise and revive architectural theory through psychoanalysis as well as to apply psychoanalytic theory to architecture. Its authors argue for Lacan’s central importance for a comprehensive theory of building and suggest how architectural theory might offer new resources for psychoanalytic theorists. They address both the perceived crisis in the contemporary state of architecture and architectural theory and crises in society at large, including political and economic fracture and instability and threats to mental health and well-being. It offers fresh insights to architects, architectural educators and practitioners, scholars of psychoanalysis, and anyone interested in the human condition in relation to the built environment.
This book has been awarded the 2025 Architectural Theory Book of the Year.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John Shannon Hendrix is Professor of Art and Architectural History at Cummings School of Architecture, Roger Williams University, United States. He is the author and editor of numerous articles and books including Architecture and the Unconscious (2016, with Lorens Eyan Holm) and Architecture and Psychoanalysis (2006).
Francesco Proto is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Baudrillard for Architects (2019).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lacan + Architecture
Editors: John Shannon Hendrix, Francesco Proto
Series Title: The Palgrave Lacan Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63257-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-63256-3Published: 15 November 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-63259-4Published: 16 November 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-63257-0Published: 14 November 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-4196
Series E-ISSN: 2946-420X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 384
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychoanalysis, Architectural History and Theory, Critical Theory