Theorist
Henri Lefebvre
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Details
- Nationality
- French
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonLived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
Philosopher and sociologist; La Production de l'espace (1974) and its spatial triad.
Connections
- authored The Production of Space
- authored The Right to the City
- proposed The Right to the City
- proposed The Production of Space
- associated with Decolonising Architecture
- proposed Spatial Triad
- relates to The Social Imaginary
- authored La Production de l'espace
- proposed Marxist/feminist critique of ANT symmetry
- opposes Bruno Latour
- influenced Jane Rendell
- influenced Margaret Crawford
- influenced Mary McLeod
Referenced by
- Edward W. Soja extends
- Doreen Massey critiqued
- Manfredo Tafuri associated with
Sources
- Social production of space. n.d.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_production_of_space.
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 14 of 19
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 20 of 22
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Henri Lefebvre." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/henri-lefebvre/. Accessed July 17, 2026.