Gough, Tim

Bio Sketch

Tim Gough is an architect and educator (Kingston University, School of Art and Architecture) working on architectural theory, especially the ontology of architecture and its relation to capital, drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, Jameson, and Spinoza.

Key Works

• "Architecture is Always in the Middle" (2015, Footprint 17) — bread-and-butter architecture as machinic assemblage; flat ontology, haecceity, and anti-nihilism.
• "Flows of Capitalism, Flows of Architecture" (2018, Ardeth 3) — architecture as flow/haecceity and the positive "surplus value of a code."

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Assemblage
• Flat Ontology
• Critical Architecture
• Neoliberal Metropolis

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Gough matters to Geoffrey's postmodernism & critique and neoliberalism & architecture areas: his attempt to repoliticize architecture via the ontology of flows and surplus value offers a constructive alternative to both Tafuri/Aureli resignation and de-politicized "architectural Deleuzism."

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Architecture is Always in the Middle
• Flows of Capitalism, Flows of Architecture