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…
Since I was an undergraduate student at the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, in the 1990s, the concept of space almost exclusively attracted my attention. I soon learned — from critics and architects — that Architecture was a discipline concerned with space; but it took me a while to understand what that really meant; and it took me even…