Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

The bridge swings over the stream ‘with ease and power’. It does not just connect banks that are already there. The banks emerge ...

appear as something that is afterward read into it. Yet the bridge would never be a mere bridge if it were not a thing. To be su ...

more than extensio—extension. But from space as extensio a further abstraction can be made, to analyticalgebraic relations. What ...

Even when mortals turn ‘inward,’ taking stock of themselves, they do not leave behind their belonging to the fourfold. When, as ...

conceive of making in that way; we thereby grasp something that is correct, and yet never touch its nature, which is a producing ...

We are attempting to trace in thought the nature of dwelling. The next step on this path would be the question: what is the stat ...

with life. It is the way of poets to shut their eyes to actuality. Instead of acting, they dream. What they make is merely imagi ...

dominance between language and man. For, strictly, it is language that speaks. Man first speaks when, and only when, he responds ...

dwelling. Yet man is capable of dwelling only if he has already built, is building, and remains disposed to build, in another wa ...

When we follow in thought Hölderlin’s poetic statement about the poetic dwelling of man, we divine a path by which, through what ...

dimension. Nor is the dimension a stretch of space as ordinarily understood; for everything spatial, as something for which spac ...

being unknown, ever be the measure? Yet—and this is what we must now listen to and keep in mind—for Hölderlin God, as the one wh ...

Do we now know what the ‘poetic’ is for Hölderlin? Yes and no. Yes, because we receive an intimation about how poetry is to be t ...

which conceals itself. In the familiar appearances, the poet calls the alien as that to which the invisible imparts itself in or ...

building only if he already builds in the sense of the poetic taking of measure. Authentic building occurs so far as there are p ...

magnificent translation for the Greek word charis. In his Ajax, Sophocles says of charis (verse 522): Charis charin gar estin he ...

context is the world of this historical people. Only from and in this expanse does the nation first return to itself for the ful ...

that the Greeks, who knew quite a bit about works of art, use the same word techne for craft and art and call the craftsman and ...

Space—is it that which, since that time (Newton), challenges modern man increasingly and ever more obstinately to its utter cont ...

difficult to determine; above all, so long as physical-technological space is held to be the space in which each spatial charact ...