That architecture is the focus of the latest book by Jean-Louis Déotte because their latest research on Walter Benjamin have led to this point, but in turn is a result of the development of the theory of the apparatus, since JL Déotte, and hence the central thesis of the book, the city does not exist in itself, but always comes configured for a device. Thus, Déotte will deploy from the problem of the architecture of the late nineteenth century, all the theoretical references that take you to specify a philosophy whose central axis of the technical problem, so the analysis Benjamin reading "The story of architecture" of Giedion is an essential part of the book. Jean-Louis Déotte is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII Vincennes Saint-Denis and directs the "apparatus, arts, dissemination" of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord. Editor chez L'Harmattan Esthétiques collection. He has published fifteen books, among which are Appareils et formes of sensibilité (2005), L'époque des appareils (2004), Catastrophe and Oblivion (1994, ed. Cast., 1998) and Le musée, l 'origine de l 'esthétique (1990).