Heidegger for Architects (Thinkers for Architects)

143 Pages·2007·0.92 MB·English

by  Adam Sharr

HEIDEGGER FOR ARCHITECTS
Thinkers for Architects
Series Editor: Adam Sharr, Cardiff University, UK
Editorial Board
Jonathan A. Hale, University of Nottingham, UK
Hilde Heynen, KU Leuven, Netherlands
David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Architects have often looked to philosophers and theorists from beyond the
discipline for design inspiration or in search of a critical framework for practice.
This original series offers quick, clear introductions to key thinkers who have
written about architecture and whose work can yield insights for designers.
Deleuze and Guattari for Architects
Andrew Ballantyne
Heidegger for Architects
Adam Sharr
Irigaray for Architects
Peg Rawes
THINKERS FOR ARCHITECTS
Heidegger
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First published 2007 1
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 6
Sharr, Adam.
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Heidegger for architects / Adam Sharr.
p. cm. – (Thinkers for architects series) 8
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. 2. Architecture – Philosophy.
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B3279.H49S423 2007
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Contents
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Illustration Credits xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 A Mountain Walk 6
3 Placing Heidegger 15
4 Heidegger’s Thinking on Architecture 21
‘The Thing’ 23
Nearness 24
So it seems 26
Thing and object 29
Fourfold: the preconditions of existence 30
Gathering 34
Being close to things 34
‘Building Dwelling Thinking’ 36
Architecture is not enough 37
Building and dwelling 38
Building, dwelling and fourfold 43
The bridge 46
Defining place in German and in English 50
How a place happens 52
The edges of places 55
Valuing experience over mathematics 58
Projecting places 62
The Black Forest farmhouse 65
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Romantic provincialism 72 1
‘... Poetically, Man Dwells ...’ 75 2
Poetic measuring 76 3
Making sense 82 4
Authenticity 87 5
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5 Heidegger and Architects 91 711
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Steamy waters 91
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Professional expertise 97
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Another tradition of modern architecture 99
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Representation and meaning 101
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Regionalism 104
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Choreographing experience 105
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Phenomenology and politics 111
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Imagination infected 114
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Further Reading 115
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Bibliography 117
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Index 123
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Series Editor’s Preface
Adam Sharr
Architects have often looked to thinkers in philosophy and theory for design
ideas, or in search of a critical framework for practice. Yet architects and
students of architecture can struggle to navigate thinkers’ writings. It can be
daunting to approach original texts with little appreciation of their contexts and
existing introductions seldom explore architectural material in any detail. This
original series offers clear, quick and accurate introductions to key thinkers who
have written about architecture. Each book summarizes what a thinker has to
offer for architects. It locates their architectural thinking in the body of their
work, introduces significant books and essays, helps decode terms and provides
quick reference for further reading. If you find philosophical and theoretical
writing about architecture difficult, or just don’t know where to begin, this
series will be indispensable.
Books in the Thinkers for Architectsseries come out of architecture. They pursue
architectural modes of understanding, aiming to introduce a thinker to an
architectural audience. Each thinker has a unique and distinctive ethos, and the
structure of each book derives from the character at its focus. The thinkers
explored are prodigious writers and any short introduction can only address a
fraction of their work. Each author – an architect or an architectural critic – has
focused on a selection of a thinker’s writings which they judge most relevant to
designers and interpreters of architecture. Inevitably, much will be left out.
These books will be the first point of reference, rather than the last word, about
a particular thinker for architects. It is hoped that they will encourage you to
read further; offering an incentive to delve deeper into the original writings of a
particular thinker.
The first three books in the series explore the work of: Gilles Deleuze and Felix
Guattari; Martin Heidegger; and Luce Irigaray. Familiar cultural figures, these are
thinkers whose writings have already influenced architectural designers and
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