El complot de los objetos

Abstract

From the assumption that architecture and objects have different ontological statuses, there is the hypothesis that in modern society objects, artefacts, are capturing the space and the attention of men in their daily life. This eagerness of appropriation is taking place in detriment of architecture. It seems that the system of objects, artefacts, is pretending to have exclusiveness in the supply of symbolic dimension and the sense that human beings ask to the environment in which they live. From the issue of the Body without Organs, about which Deleuze and Gattari thought, physical characteristics that the human body establishes with objects and architecture itself will be analysed. The core of the study consists in putting into relation two very important pieces for architecture: the Eames Case Study 8 and the Smithson’s House of the Future. From this analysis we will obtain some interesting consequences in order to verify how there are two ways to confront the competitive relation between architecture and objects. How there is a way to make architecture from the design to serve the objects (Eames); and another that pretends to make a great habitable object that absorbs other domestic objects and that becomes parodic in not giving up the attributes of architecture (Smithson).