Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: an architecture inseparable from its form -- pt. I Agamben's burning house -- 2.Tracing the complex encounters between space, architecture and art -- 3.Literal and artistic potential common grounds -- 4.The taking place of possible inoperative encounters -- pt. II Giorgio Agamben's oeuvre -- 5.Earlier works: The Man Without Content and Stanzas -- 6.The coming politics and the question of potentiality -- 7.The Homo Sacer project -- pt. III Towards an inoperative architecture -- 8.Paradigms and dispositives -- 9.Profanation -- 10.Potentialities -- 11.Inoperativity -- 12.Use -- 13.Abandoning the project: the possibility for a `whatever architecture'.