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Lecture date: 2010-10-22 Brunelleschi Lacan Le Corbusier: Architecture Space and the Construction of Subjectivity A major new interpretive work on the structure of spatial experience, this book is for theorists of architecture, art and visual studies. It interprets the 15th-century demonstration of perspective for today by relating it to contemporary theories of subjectivity. It explores a link between architecture and psychoanalysis that has not hitherto been elaborated, and opens the way for the Lacanian critique of architecture that is now a familiar feature of discourse in the other arts and social sciences. The text argues that perspective is the paradigmatic form of spatial consciousness. This explains why perspective remains such a satisfying representational form – the form of space that we tend to call real – and why it remains the primary visual form of architectural space, despite recent experiments in representation that claim to challenge this canon. This link between the inn
