Certainly—giving up the ordinary and going back into questioning interpretation is a leap. Only one who takes the right running start can leap. Everything is decided by this run…[1] Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics. Note [1] Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 188. Work Cited Heidegger, Martin. Introduction to…
This article is a continuation of Being as Place: Introduction to Metaphysics – Part One, where I explored Heidegger’s metaphysical discourse on Being, examining how it intersects with the reformed concept of place I am discussing at RSaP-Rethinking Space and Place. So far in the first three chapters of Introduction to Metaphysics (the 2000-edition translated by Gregory Fried and Richard…
Building on the new translation of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (2000), this article presents Heidegger’s metaphysical discussion of Being, and I hope it will contribute to clarifying the foundation for the reinterpretation of traditional concepts of place, space, time, and matter that I am advocating for at RSaP-Rethinking Space and Place. This ground shares many intersecting threads with Heidegger’s concept…
Building on the issue of ambiguous spatial language and its application to architecture (see On the Ambiguous Language of Space), I want to make a digression. My aim is to extend the scope of our architectural discussion and deepen the spatial/placial question in relation to humanity’s understanding of reality. At the same time, I wish to return to the reasons…
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space and place. This is my reformulation of Mies van der Rohe’s famous definition of Architecture: ‘Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.’ [1] Space, alone, is no more sufficient to describe the systemic complexity of architecture, which, at the beginning of a new era, is better understood…