In the text Schizoanalytic Cartographies (1989), the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari suggests the elements of schizoanalysis ‘are like crystals of singularization, points of bifurcation outside the dominant coordinates, on the basis of which mutant universes of reference can spring up’. Schizoanalysis is thus simultaneously an act of departure and flight: a departure from the ‘dominant coordinates’ of thought – the thinking habitually imposed upon a subject. And a flight toward ‘mutant universes’ – alternate modes of critique and creation – generative of new subjects. The present book, Bare Architecture, is a work of schizoanalysis. The key model of thought to be departed from is that thinking which we have habitually applied to the body and its relation to architecture. Three poststructural virtues: the impersonal, the indiscernible and the imperceptible, are engaged to recast the subject. Three architectural procedures: symptomatology, wayfaring and speaking, are invoked in order that the architecture that once held us in place, casts us afar.