Contents
Translator’s NoteIntroduction: A Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Łukasz StanekToward an Architecture of Enjoyment1. The Question2. The Scope of the Inquiry3. The Quest4. Objections5. Philosophy6. Anthropology7. History8. Psychology and Psychoanalysis9. Semantics and Semiology10. Economics11. Architecture12. Conclusion (Injunctions)
NotesIndex
Henri Lefebvre (19011991) was a Marxist philosopher and
sociologist. His many books includeThe Right to the City, The
Production of Space, Everyday Life in the Modern World,andThe Urban
Revolution(Minnesota, 2003).
ukasz Stanek is lecturer at the Manchester Architecture Centre,
University of Manchester, and the author ofHenri Lefebvre on Space:
Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of
Theory(Minnesota, 2011).
Robert Bononno, a teacher and translator, lives in New York City.
His recent translations includeSpeech Begins after Deathby Michel
Foucault (Minnesota, 2013) andCosmopolitics IandIIby Isabelle
Stengers (Minnesota, 201011).
"Stanek's work has already taken scholarship on Henri Lefebvre’s
concept of space to an unprecedented level of philosophical
sophistication. With the discovery of this new text, Stanek
escorts Lefebvre to the center of architecture theory since 1968.
Lefebvre’s conceptual text and Stanek’s exquisite Introduction
together enable the possibility of thinking not about architecture,
but thinking architecturally about how we inhabit our
world. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment takes us
toward a concept of the architectural imagination that is a
powerful mediator between thought and action."—K. Michael Hays,
Harvard Graduate School of Design
"We finally have access to [Henri Lefebvre’s] most forceful
meditation on the spatial utopia he aspired to. We owe the rescue
and publication of this notable book to the perseverance and talent
of Łukasz Stanek, who wrote the volume’s excellent and
comprehensive introduction."—Environment & Planning D: Society and
Space"A work that is profound, relevant, and important."—Canadian
Journal of Sociology"This book, which focuses on architecture and
redefines it. . . according to Lefebvre, architecture should work
towards enjoyment and against aestheticism."—Finnish Architectural
Review"Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment not only provides
critical insight into Lefebvre, whose impact is still palpable, but
reveals new connections between his ideas and design and,
ultimately, capitalism and the built environment."—Buildings &
Landscapes
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