Architecture of Desire

Desire Architecture challenges the rational, functional, and controlling nature of architecture, dissolving its discipline and transcending and reshaping its boundaries. This compilation focuses on creative practices that oscillate between imagination and reality, constructing new worlds by dismantling established structures. It includes Piranesi's world, which oscillates between imagination and reality, Italo Calvino's explorer's compassless, dreamlike journeys through cities, and Constant's temporary, variable, fictional urban representations designed for nomads. A journey from spaces where rooms form infinite labyrinths to the Tower of Babel and New Babylon is also part of this work.

The ideas of Derrida, Deleuze, and Guattari, who replaced architecture's fixed narratives with concepts of otherness, transformation, and continuous formation, are present, as are artists like Gordon Matta-Clark, Rachel Whiteread, and Cornelia Parker, who stood against rational and functional architecture's service to the capitalist system by turning the home into a consumer object. Additionally, Buster Keaton, who addressed the never-to-be-built industrial house in a silent film, is discussed within this framework. Surrealists who viewed architecture as dream images and situationists who made it a "means of trying out infinite ways to transform life" are among the other prominent figures in this compilation.

Finally, Kurt Schwitters' cabinet of curiosities, conceptual spaces such as a memory palace, a monument to autonomy, and a "cathedral of erotic misery," add unique depth to this narrative.