%0 Journal Article
%T Shattering the black box: Technicities of architectural manipulation
%A Stavros Kousoulas
%J International Journal of Architectural Computing
%@ 2048-3988
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1478077118801937
%X This article attempts to reverse a fallacy often met in architectural theories and practices: that of a supposed input which through processes of what one can broadly call translations generates a built output. The input¨Coutput fallacy produces an architectural black box that treats both architectural thinking and doing as a mere process of projecting, representing and annotating ¡®properly¡¯ what will later be executed. On the contrary, a manipulative account of architecture as an active process of ecological engineering will pave the way for not only reversing the fallacy but also towards a particular understanding of architectural practices: architectural technicities and their reticular, affective potentials. Drawing on the theories of Gilbert Simondon, Andr¨¦ Leroi-Gourhan, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, I will examine how architecture can be genealogically approached as a reticular technicity which evolves by a reciprocal concretisation of its technical objects and a generalisation of its active practitioners: no longer the application of transcendental design rules, of symbolic deductions or statistical inductions but rather abductive heuristics of affective techniques; no input nor output but practices of sensorial amplification via material manipulation and vice versa
%K Abduction
%K concretisation
%K Leroi-Gourhan
%K Simondon
%K technicity
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1478077118801937