Dr Chris L. Smith

Dr. Chris L Smith is a Lecturer in Architectural Design and Techné and the Coordinator of Architectural Technologies in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney. His research is concerned with the interdisciplinary nexus of philosophy, biology and architectural theory and his current work contemplates notions of matter and materiality. He has published papers on the political philosophy of Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (also the subject of his doctoral thesis), technologies of the body and ‘the eclipse of Darwinism’ phase. Before joining the Faculty of Architecture in 2007 he was a lecturer at Newcastle University in the UK. This year, he will teach the Sustainable Stream of the Masters of Architecture Program and Contemporary Architectural Theory. He is currently co-editing Architecture in the Space of Flows with Andrew Ballantyne – the collaborative text grew out of a conference in the UK that examined the contemporary understanding of selves, buildings and cities as modulators of flows. He is also preparing his doctoral dissertation for publication.

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