jispa: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called jispa.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Philosophy; Building; Design; Work; Architects; Human; Way; World; Space; Art; Time; Life; House; Theory; Ibid; Object; Autonomy; Heidegger; Nature; Wittgenstein; Buildings; Politics; Measure

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Why Architecture Philosophy? by Spector, Tom; Fahey, Carolyn; Koller, Stefan (2014) - Rick Fox’s “A New Interpretative Taxonomy” is a textbook example of epistemic inquiry, which delineates common positions within popular architecture discourse: the singularist, constructivist, and contextualist. The initial issues will explore the boundaries of writing on architecture philosophy and, in the process, begin to show what the key questions, positions, and disagreements amongst architecture philosophers are. Keywords: aesthetics; architecture; philosophy
• Complete Issue by Philosophy, Architecture (2014) - The participants of the exhibition conceived of “Chicago Architects” as a sort of salon des refusés, which was scheduled to be on display at the Richard Gray Gallery simultaneously with the “official” and “canonical” retrospective of Chicago architecture at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, entitled “A Hundred Years of Chicago Architecture: Continuity of Form and Structure.”13 As Kuspit suggests, the commodification of art, and the overabundant stimuli available to us through electronic and mechanical production and reproduction of art works, has made it all but impossible for us to gain access to the truth of art, or the shocking nature of this.12 Even so, most of us have had encounters with works of art that have left us moved, even shaken, and these tend to be the most memorable, because the profoundest. Keywords: activities; activity; aesthetic; architects; architecture; architecture philosophy; art; beauty; body; book; building; case; chicago; claim; culture; design; ethical; ethics; example; experience; form; good; hegel; house; ideas; interpretation; kant; meaning; mind; new; object; philosophy; plan; point; press; question; sense; theory; things; thought; tigerman; time; type; university; view; vol; way; westfall; work; world; york
• Autonomy Reconsidered by Fahey, Carolyn; Koller, Stefan; Spector, Tom (2024) - In “The Myth of Autonomy,” Nathaniel Coleman exposes and dissects foundational myths that, he argues, drive various autonomy projects in architecture to this day. Together, and in service to both fields of study, we must reconsider what autonomy means for both architecture and philosophy, or rather, for architecture philosophy. Keywords: architecture; autonomy; philosophy
• Trying to Think in a Connected Sort of Way: Part II, Andrew Ballantyne in conversation with Stefan Koller by Koller, Stefan (2024) - There’s other ways of doing it, but philosophy is good, it’s rigorous, and it really makes you think. No 2 . 2015 249 Ba ll a n ty n e architectural discussion ought to begin with ordinary things and daily life and branch out from there. Keywords: architecture; philosophy; thinking
• Complete Issue by Philosophy, Architecture (2024) - Nevertheless, those who are interested in the relation of ethics to architecture-as-architecture – or architecture qua architecture – will protest that these are not the sorts of examples that need to be explored. If there were architectural obligations – commitments architects incur simply by being architects – they would secure an internal relation between ethics and architecture qua architecture inasmuch as these putative obligations would be internal to the practice of architecture as such. Keywords: account; architects; architecture; architecture philosophy; architecture qua; argument; aristotle; art; autonomy; beauty; building; city; claim; design; ethical; ethics; example; experience; form; freedom; function; good; history; ibid; images; life; moralism; new; philosophy; press; project; ruskin; sense; theory; things; thinking; time; university; use; utopia; value; vol; way; work; world
• Complete Issue by Spector, Tom (2016) - We say ‘most’ because many forms of architecture—paper architecture and exhibition architecture like the Weissenhofsiedlung—can legitimately evade any obligation to enduring aesthetic relevance. What does it tell us about his analyses of dwelling and other foundational concerns in architecture philosophy? Keywords: adorno; aesthetics; architects; architecture; architecture philosophy; art; autonomy; beauty; building; claim; demands; design; dwelling; ethics; form; heidegger; human; hölderlin; ibid; kant; kaufmann; ledoux; man; measure; moral; nature; need; new; objects; obligation; paper; philosophy; poetic; poetry; practice; press; sense; social; society; speaks; theory; things; time; university; vol; way; whiting; work; world
• Philosophy Of Architecture / Written by Christian Illies & Nicholas Ray by Koller, Stefan; Spector, Tom (2016) - Its final proposal allocates to architecture a much greater role in framing and deciding philosophical questions than any (certainly recent) philosophers have been willing to accord it. Hence, for an overview of the more longstanding areas of philosophical interest, as well as some introduction to recent events in those areas, Philosophy of Architecture does what a good “little handbook” should do: it presents the fields in such a way that a reader with a budding interest in these matters can delve into them further with the confidence that there is, in fact, a field to delve into. Keywords: architecture; authors; book; philosophy
• Complete Issue by Spector, Tom (2017) - [2] Monographs on the architecture (and, sometimes, “philosophy”) of the Stonborough- Wittgenstein house include: Bernhard Leitner, The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Documentation (London: Studio International Publications, 1973); Jan Turnovský, The Poetics of a Wall Projection (London: Architectural Association Publications, 2009); Paul Wijdeveld, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Architect (London: Thames and Hudson, 1994); Bernhard Leitner, The Wittgenstein House (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000); Roger Paden, Mysticism and Architecture: The Meanings of the Palais Stonborough (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007); No 2 . 2017 isparchitecture.com Wittgenstein’s architectural idiosyncraSy august sarnitz Ludwig Wittgenstein was deeply embedded in Viennese architectural Modernism, culturally as well as personally. Keywords: aesthetics; architects; architecture; architecture philosophy; architecture theory; art; book; building; construction; context; corbusier; culture; design; discourse; gesture; house; language; loos; ludwig wittgenstein; margaret; meaning; new; paper; philosophy; position; remarks; scruton; sense; space; style; theory; time; tradition; understanding; university; vienna; viennese; vol; way; wittgenstein; wittgenstein house; work
• Contesting Wittgenstein's Remarks on Architecture by Schuff, Jochen (2017) - [2] Monographs on the architecture (and, sometimes, “philosophy”) of the Stonborough- Wittgenstein house include: Bernhard Leitner, The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Documentation (London: Studio International Publications, 1973); Jan Turnovský, The Poetics of a Wall Projection (London: Architectural Association Publications, 2009); Paul Wijdeveld, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Architect (London: Thames and Hudson, 1994); Bernhard Leitner, The Wittgenstein House (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000); Roger Paden, Mysticism and Architecture: The Meanings of the Palais Stonborough (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007); [29] See Lüdeking, “Pictures and Gestures;” Roger Scruton, “Wittgenstein and the Understanding of Music,” British Journal of Aesthetics 44, no. 1 (2004); Yves Bossart, Ästhetik nach Wittgenstein. Keywords: aesthetics; architecture; art; gesture; philosophy; remarks; understanding; value; wittgenstein; work
• Architecture Philosophy Vol. 3 No. 1 by Spector, Tom (2018) - Whereas for Cassirer architecture as functional space is a new construction rather than determined by conditions already existing, for Heidegger, on the opposite extreme, architecture is determined by these preconditions; that is, it “mimics” or responds to the priority of the whole or of “reality.” Appropriateness to the field of architecture philosophy Does the paper acknowledge and/or build on existing scholarship in both architecture and philosophy? Keywords: architects; architecture; architecture philosophy; art; beings; body; building; cassirer; city; concept; culture; design; environment; example; form; function; harries; heidegger; history; human; ibid; kind; life; meaning; model; myth; nature; new; philosophy; place; post; press; question; social; space; species; state; theory; things; thinking; thought; time; understanding; university; vol; way; ways; work; world
• Editorial the Human in Architecture and Philosophy: Steps Towards an "Architectural Anthropology" by Düchs, Martin; Illies, Christian (2018) - Any attempt to encapsulate the human being (or human nature) would only serve to limit him or her and to miss what we really are.11 The radical openness of humans as self-constructing beings does not allow for any characterisation of human beings as such, they claim.12 These are it has long been central to philosophy to answer exactly this question: What is man? “ ” AP . Our philosophical focus is not human beings as such, or human nature, but humans at home: Human beings as those for whom we design and build houses which they use and where they stay. Keywords: anthropology; architecture; beings; human; new; philosophy; question
• Karsten Harries and Roger Scruton on Architecture and Philosophy by Harries, Karsten; Scruton, Roger; Illies, Christian (2018) - isparchitecture.com Building Thinking Asking: what is the right way to do Philosophy of Architecture? A panel discussion between Karsten Harries and SIR Roger Scruton moderated by Christian Illies KARSTEN HARRIES: When I was asked to participate in this session, I was told our conversation had to do with “Building Thinking Asking: what is the right way to do Philosophy of Architecture?” What does the title mean to the philosophy of architecture? Keywords: architecture; harries; philosophy; question; scruton; space; way
• Presence or Meaning in Pau Pedragosa 25 Architecture by Pedragosa, Pau (2018) - Whereas for Cassirer architecture as functional space is a new construction rather than determined by conditions already existing, for Heidegger, on the opposite extreme, architecture is determined by these preconditions; that is, it “mimics” or responds to the priority of the whole or of “reality.” 2. Ernst Cassirer From 1919 until his exile in 1933 (the whole period of the Weimar Republic), Cassirer held a chair in philosophy at the newly founded University of Hamburg, located in one of the most liberal towns in Germany. Keywords: architecture; cassirer; culture; forms; function; heidegger; human; myth; philosophy; space; theory; world
• From Anthropomimetic to Biomimetic Cities by Dicks, Henry (2018) - The third key point is that all the political and social philosophy discussed above sees the political or social community as composed solely of human beings. Whereas the former is composed solely of human beings, the latter is composed rather of houses, temples, fortresses, city walls, market places, and other artificial constructions, though later also infrastructure, most of which was inanimate, as in the case of transport, water, and energy networks, though some of which was composed of living beings, as in the case of the new urban parks, whose creation was justified throughout the Western world on the grounds that they constituted the “lungs of the city. Keywords: body; cities; city; forest; human; model; nature; philosophy; polis; social; state; urban
• Architecture Philosophy Vol. 3 No. 2 by Spector, Tom (2018) - Appropriateness to the field of architecture philosophy Does the paper acknowledge and/or build on existing scholarship in both architecture and philosophy? The lack of doors puts one in mind of the domestic architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, of whom it was said that “he [Plessner] might have been Mies’s favourite philosopher, therefore the favourite philosopher of one of the three great heroes of modern architecture.” Keywords: aesthetic; anthropology; aporia; architects; architecture; architecture philosophy; art; book; building; case; conditions; culture; design; die; dwelling; education; example; figure; form; frank; function; heidegger; helmuth; house; human; individual; kind; latour; law; life; logic; making; means; modern; nature; need; new; oma; order; paper; people; philosophical; philosophy; place; plato; plessner; problem; propositions; public; question; sense; social; society; space; staff; studies; studio; theory; things; thinking; time; understanding; university; vol; way; work; world; yaneva
• The Need for a Philosophical Anthropology of Architecture by Düchs, Martin; Illies, Christian (2018) - If we wish to give an accurate account of the various types of buildings (as was our intention) and of their constituent elements, our whole method of investigation must open and begin here, by considering human variety in greater detail; since buildings arose on man´s account, and for his needs they vary; so that they may be dealt with more clearly by distinguishing their individual characteristics.2 For Alberti, only if the individuality of human beings is taken as the starting point, can architecture fulfil its social role; and only then do we understand the task of architecture properly.3 Good architecture and good cities care for both society and individual human beings; but the individual must come first. Questioning the Relationship of Architecture and Philosophy”, Karsten Harries considers the mutual inspiration of philosophy and architecture, their relationship and their mutual contributions to one another. Keywords: anthropology; architecture; century; human; individual; modernity; new; philosophical; philosophy; society
• Ut Architectura Philosophia? Questioning the Relationship of Architecture and Philosophy by Harries, Karsten (2018) - That was the charge Mark Lilla directed against my The Ethical Function of Architecture: “It never seems to occur to Harries that modern society is not re-presented in modern architecture for the simple reason that it is un-representable. As I show in The Ethical Function of Architecture, that approach invites an understanding of works of architecture as decorated sheds in the broadest sense, as functional buildings to which an aesthetic component has been added. Keywords: architecture; art; building; dwelling; heidegger; human; need; philosophy; question; sense; space; way; work; world
• Complete Issue by Spector, Tom (2019) - Appropriateness to the field of architecture philosophy Does the paper acknowledge and/or build on existing scholarship in both architecture and philosophy? On the other hand, bo ok r ev iew s 104 Wang does not address the theme of criticality that was important not only for Zhu but also for critics of Chinese architecture like Peter Eisenman who had once declared Chinese architecture conservative and accommodating because it lacks a tradition of resistance. Keywords: abjection; adorno; antiquarian; approach; architects; architecture; bataille; body; building; cathedral; chinese; confinement; design; dwelling; environment; ethics; experience; form; general; history; home; housing; human; ibid; kristeva; life; merleau; nature; new; nietzsche; object; philosophy; ponty; practice; press; prison; problem; property; relation; self; sense; shelter; solitary; subject; term; things; university; use; vol; way; world; york
• Architecture and the Political by Spector, Tom (2019) - This development was not by design but rather by accretion—but one we eventually embraced as a legitimate extension of the exploration of the conjunction of architecture and philosophy. Architecture can be pressed into the OUR PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSIONS WERE OCCASIONALLY INTERRUPTED BY FIGHTER JETS BUZZING THE CAMPUS “ ” ARCHITECTURE AND THE POLITICAL TOM SPECTOR AP . Keywords: architecture; issue; philosophy
• Editorial: Building as Service by Jensen, Mark; Spector, Tom (2020) - This recognition leads him to conclude that contemporary design cannot hope to slide underneath the political 7 isparchitecture.com dimensions of life: public buildings are not just neutral backdrops for political contests but actually part of the contests themselves. In his piece, “Design-Politics: How Buildings Mean,” the conference’s final keynote Lawrence Vale develops a set of distinctions first proposed by Nelson Goodman to examine the gap between what a building means and how it communicates its meaning to its audience. Keywords: academy; architecture; building; conference; philosophy
• Complete Issue by Issue, Complete (2020) - This recognition leads him to conclude that contemporary design cannot hope to slide underneath the political 7 isparchitecture.com dimensions of life: public buildings are not just neutral backdrops for political contests but actually part of the contests themselves. We now seem clearly in a world of queasy autonomy, one where the public and the media insist that public buildings be seen as inhabited places and as parts of cities. Keywords: academy; air; architects; architecture; architecture philosophy; arendt; art; building; case; century; chicago; city; clark; concept; design; discipline; estates; figure; force; form; foucault; future; glass; goodman; history; house; human; judgment; koolhaas; lincoln; matta; meaning; means; new; new york; object; original; panopticon; parcels; past; perspective; philosophy; politics; power; present; preservation; press; process; project; public; space; structure; time; trump; university; value; vol; way; work; world; york
• Koolhaas' Revison of Foucault's Panopticon; or, How Architecture and Philosophy Just Met by Patrao, Andre (2020) - It is no coincidence that Koolhaas had also read Roland Barthes, another renowned structuralist and later post-structuralist from the same Parisian intellectual scene as Foucault’s before producing his “French book.” Indeed, skepticism over the existence of a case study at all seems reinforced by the fact that throught the entire text of Revision Foucault is not once quoted, mentioned, or even alluded to even though he explicitly references the evaluation by the governmental Jacobs Committee, the accusations launched by the 19th century Dutch Parliament member Wintgens, and prison typologies experimented with in Amsterdam and Maastricht. According to Vidler, “[in the Arnhem prison project] we find echoes of a reading of Michel Foucault, whose studies of discipline and power have strongly influenced the politics and strategies of the generation of OMA.”, and it is “in the space marked by Foucault after the crossing streets cut the all-seeing eye, the pan-optikos. Keywords: architecture; arnhem; discipline; foucault; koepel; koolhaas; oma; panopticon; philosophy; prison; project; punish
• Architecture and Object-Oriented Ontology: Simon Weir in Conversation with Graham Harman by Harman, Graham (2022) - Real objects cannot make contact unless mediated by a sensual object, and sensual objects only make contact when mediated by a real one. Second, Aristotle is more comfortable with natural than artificial things as primary substances, whereas I don’t think the natural 57 isparchitecture.com vs. artificial divide matters very much: an airplane or a city are real objects no less than a raindrop. Keywords: architecture; form; object; ooo; philosophy; qualities; real; realism
• Complete Issue by Issue, Complete (2022) - Therefore, attitudes towards spatial objects are in themselves accidental, that is, susceptible to the passage of time and the concurrent evolution of value-systems. Specifically, we are able to categorize spatial objects because sets (see above) contain objects that relate to each other through causal qualities at the exclusion of objects that do not share properties. Keywords: architects; architecture; body; cause; context; essence; essentialism; example; existence; form; harman; human; lyotard; nature; new; object; ooo; philosophy; production; project; properties; qualities; real; realism; reality; set; space; terms; things; thought; time; university; vol; way; work
• Public Space. The real and the ideal. Editorial by Patrão, André; Teerds, Hans; Baumberger, Christoph; Spector, Tom (2023) - AMSTERDAM (2018) While the importance of public space seems mostly undisputed, much disagreement continues to emerge concerning its purposes, its boundaries, its characteristics, its use, and most importantly the extent of the threats it faces. Different visions of public space have taken form in the works of such diverse architectural and urban practitioners, historians and critics, as Camillo Sitte, Kenneth Frampton, Rem Koolhaas, Michael Sorkin, Margaret Crawford, and Jan Gehl, but also of urban sociologists like Setha Low and Lyn Lofland, activists such as Jane Jacobs and Mike Davis, as well as such influential philosophers and political theorists as Henri Lefebvre, Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, and Chantal Mouffe. Keywords: architecture; design; no.1/2; philosophy; public; space; vol
• Complete Issue by Issue, Complete (2023) - A full- blown defense of these sub-rights is beyond the present scope; here I note a few definitional points and take note of one common denominator relative to urban public space. One ought not to penetrate this little portion of city space, as it is now walled off and occupied. Keywords: actions; approach; architects; architecture; arendt; atmospheres; basic; body; building; case; cities; city; design; dimension; environment; example; experience; form; freedom; history; hong; house; housing; human; ibid; idea; impact; isparchitecture.com; jianghu; kant; kong; life; necessity; new; order; outside; people; philosophy; physical; place; political; politics; possibility; practices; press; project; property; public; question; realm; relation; responsibilities; right; role; rttc; rudofsky; second; sense; social; society; space; square; state; street; sub; theory; time; understanding; university; urban; view; vol; way; work; world

• Sharing sense: Or, how ethics might be the subject matter of architectural aesthetics by Leatherbarrow, David (2014) - Like it or not, architectural work today is largely a matter of business, in which project making is hurried and abbreviated by cost-cutting measures: mostly we ‘fast-track’ design development, reuse AP . We commonly identify architectural works with the name of their designer: a Nouvel, Gehry, or Ando building, as if an accommodation were nothing more than a We commonly identify architectural works with the name of their designer: a Nouvel, Gehry, or Ando building, as if an accommodation were nothing more than a representation, a paper menu the meal “ ” Schreiner House: View towards garden AP . Keywords: architecture; building; design; ethical; ethics; ethos; house; life; sense; table; word; work
• Building plans as natural symbols by De Clercq, Rafael (2014) - In other words, the plausibility of the central claim does not depend on which of the two interpretations is preferred.4 Another interpretative issue arises from the fact that Westfall does not say that building plans are symbols; he tends to say that building types are symbols. Indeed, more recently, Westfall writes that (particular) buildings “based on” building types are 63 isparchitecture.com natural symbols (unpublished, p. 14). Keywords: activities; activity; architecture; building; claim; example; plan; type; westfall
• A new interpretive taxonomy for works of architecture by Fox, Rick (2014) - My aim here is not to articulate and then adjudicate specific interpretations, but rather to enrich dialogue among disputants, build a few bridges, and get beyond the interpretive gridlock that has characterized architectural interpretation in recent decades. Recent Interpretive Practice A core aim of architectural interpretation is to elucidate, explain, make sense of, and help others understand the existing built-environment, proposed works of architecture, architectural theories, and other elements of architectural discourse. Keywords: architecture; building; interpretation; multiplist; new; object; properties; singularism; view; work
• The Ethical Criticism of Architecture: In Defense of Moderate Moralism by Baumberger, Christopher (2024) - Such assessments of architectural works are of an ethical nature, or at least possess an ethical dimension. Do ethical assessments of architectural works have any bearing on their value as works of architecture? Keywords: architectural; beauty; building; ethical; flaws; function; merits; moralism; value; work
• An Aesthetic Deontology: Accessible Beauty as a Fundamental Obligation of Architecture by Illies, Christian; Ray, Nicholas (2016) - Related notions of architecture as a spatial art, or as primarily the plastic manipulation of form (as Le Corbusier sometimes claimed), and the careful articulation of surfaces enter here.6 Formal, or compositional, beauty can be found in other works of art, such as sculptures and pictures, but functional beauty is a quality found in the design of useful products, such as implements, and architecture. Formal and functional beauty can be found in many non-architectural artifacts. Keywords: architects; architecture; art; beauty; building; claim; demands; design; example; need; obligation; people; time; types; way
• Wittgenstein's Architectural Idiosyncrasy by Sarnitz, August (2017) - [1] The present work builds on my earlier publications: August Sarnitz, Die Architektur Wittgensteins: Rekonstruktion einer gebauten Idee (Vienna: Böhlau, 2011); August Sarnitz, “Reconstructing Wittgenstein as an Architect: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Margaret Stonborough- Wittgenstein—Defining and Designing a New Interior,” in Private Utopias, ed. isparchitecture.com Wittgenstein’s architectural idiosyncraSy august sarnitz Ludwig Wittgenstein was deeply embedded in Viennese architectural Modernism, culturally as well as personally. Keywords: architecture; building; design; floor; hoffmann; house; loos; ludwig; margaret; perco; room; sister; vienna; viennese; wagner; wittgenstein; work
• Use-Value and the Question of Completion by Demirel, Emre (2017) - In a similar way, the B2 House comes into being not as a re-figuration of the traditional motifs but as a re-embodiment of the emotional experiences of traditional building. However, when looking at the region where the B2 House was built—Büyüksun—many buildings imitate local traditional buildings by using local materials. Keywords: architecture; bihzad; building; corbusier; house; new; tradition; tümertekin; wittgenstein
• The Anthropology of a Smoke-Filled Room: Ethnography and the Human at Oma by Owen, Graham (2018) - And, indeed, in her online summary of Made by OMA, Yaneva declares her intention to show “how innovation permeates design practice, how everyday techniques and workaday choices set new standards for buildings and urban phenomena.”32 Why might this ethnographic study have overlooked or de-emphasised these aspects of human relations at OMA? Keywords: ant; architecture; building; conditions; design; farías; hours; human; koolhaas; latour; making; office; oma; practices; project; staff; studies; studio; time; work; working; yaneva
• Aesthetic Education and Design by Scruton, Roger (2018) - But ‘fitting in’ is the primary goal of aesthetic judgment, and it is why Schiller connected aesthetic education to his ideal of civic order. Aesthetic education, as I see it, is one part of the broader practice of humane education–the kind of education that transmits knowledge of the human world. Keywords: aesthetic; architecture; boundaries; building; city; education; genius; kind; life; madness; way
• The Future of Modernism: Architectural Intention and Adaptive Reuse by Mahan, Frank; Kluytenaar, Van (2020) - It requires understanding a preexisting narrative as well as the crafting of a new narrative, one that both continues and extends the original.2 Existing buildings function as complex formal entities that develop over time and space, accumulate human experience and produce unique historical richness. This understanding of the modernist enterprise is particularly significant to the preservation of modernist buildings. Keywords: academy; architecture; building; concept; design; glass; materiality; meaning; merleau; modernist; new; original; polaris; ponty; present; preservation
• Design-Politics: How Buildings Mean by Vale, Lawrence J. (2020) - Clearly, building heights had become not just a matter of an exemplified architectural property but a tool for geopolitical competition—a way for Russians to contend with the Americans at their own game. Then, before “peak oil” might come to pass, Middle Clearly, building heights had become not just a matter of an exemplified architectural property but a tool for geopolitical competition “ ” figure 6: postcard, 1937 Paris Exposition AP . Keywords: architecture; building; chicago; city; denotation; design; figure; goodman; height; hotel; lincoln; meaning; memorial; new; politics; reference; tower; trump; vol; world
• The Space of Appearance Within the Megalopolis. Architectural Culture- Politics of São Paulo 1957-2017 by Frampton, Kenneth (2023) - Every construction, every action of ours has value, a political essence, which must be read between the lines of what is there…in architecture in particular, the first thing it entails is to seduce others so that they can see the dimensions of what, despite the circumstances we must do.8 Among the architects practicing in São Paulo over the last half of the 20th century there has perhaps been no figure who has been more aware of the profound challenges posed by the São Paulo megalopolis, now covering a 45 isparchitecture.com million square kilometers with a population of 30 million people, than Paulo Mendes da Rocha. This achievement was echoed in 2017 by the realization of another SESC complex within the São Paulo megalopolis; the so-called SESC 24 de Maio built to the designs of the late Paulista architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who collaborated with one of his former pupils, Maria Moreira, a founding partner in the practice, MMBB. Keywords: appearance; arendt; building; city; megalopolis; paulo; rocha; space; são
• Architecture and Ethics: Autonomy, Architecture, Art by Carroll, Noël (2024) - Nevertheless, those who are interested in the relation of ethics to architecture-as-architecture – or architecture qua architecture – will protest that these are not the sorts of examples that need to be explored. And, furthermore, that purpose is external to the practice of architecture qua architecture. Keywords: architects; architecture; architecture qua; art; building; ethics; purpose; qua; relation; theory; way

• Aristotle, Autonomy, and Design: Ancient Wisdom and the Modern Home by Jensen, Mark (2024) - Aristotle’s more inclusive starting point lays the groundwork for our account of human freedom. Aristotle regards the household as the fundamental unit of human life and identifies its elements with a quote from Hesiod. Keywords: account; aristotle; autonomy; citizens; city; design; freedom; good; life
• Toward a Post-human Era? by Roussel, Marion (2018) - Yet, due to, for example, the emergence of new species of life, be they digital, mechanical, or bio-mechanical, the place of man on the earth could well change faster than we expect, and in such a radical way that it could lead to the extinction of humankind itself. The neologism ‘allogenesis’ refers to the emergence of new species from every available material—genetic, epigenetic, or even non-genetic. Keywords: architects; architecture; cyberspace; design; human; life; nature; new; novak; post; species; world
• Aporia in Architectural Design by Kostic, Aleksandar (2018) - Therefore, modal logic encompasses design propositions (with respects to certain rules or styles) and it is useful in design predictions. If it is indeed the case that a world view on design theory can be grown out of these “seed questions” as Galle proposes, then one must be first fully engaged with them by recognising the aporia.38 I agree with Galle that these questions are “not to be shrugged off ”, as he says.39 Furthermore, it seems to me that they are fundamental for any design theory. Keywords: aporia; case; contradiction; design; figure; logic; plato; propositions; theory; way
• Designing for Imprisonment: Architectural Ethics and Prison Design by Moran, Dominique; Jewkes, Yvonne; Lorne, Colin (2019) - Tracing the nascent development of the philosophical field of architectural ethics, it is clear that philosophical discussion locates social responsibility with the individual architect as a moral agent--a stance confirmed both by the comments of professional architects, and by the reluctance of the AIA to assume any responsibility for the ethical conduct of its members beyond the standard professionalism of business ethics. Architects encounter moral dilemmas in everyday practice, in designing buildings to address clients’ briefs. Keywords: architects; architecture; buildings; conduct; design; environment; ethics; issues; practice; prison
• Designing a Common World: Public Responsibility and the Aim to Objectify Architecture by Teerds, Hans (2020) - To these two claims that aim to overcome the subjective aspects of architectural design (or as stated, of the architectural designer) we might add a third direction: the renewed interest in participation trajectories. The subjectivity of the designer has become the ‘whipping boy’ of architectural design. Keywords: architecture; arendt; artefacts; design; human; judgment; new; perspective; process; public; subjectivity; world
• Parametric Design in the Historic Urban Domain. The Case of Eleftheria Square by Zaha Hadid Architects by Evangelidou, Stella (2023) - Concurrently, an examination of other theoretical discourses concerning new architecture in historic and sensitive environments can inform a critical perspective on the subject. From the point of view of philosopher Hans Georg Gadamer’s theory of hermeneutics, new architecture in a historic setting can generate multiple interpretations, which are constantly regulated by what a setting has been in the past, and what it wants to be, by means of the architecture of the new intervention. Keywords: architects; architecture; city; design; eleftheria; hadid; meaning; moat; new; nicosia; place; project; space; square
• What Architecture Does. An Embodied Approach Towards the Impact of the Built Environment by Schaik, Margit van (2023) - Furthermore, we can see empathy as a skill that can be enriched: the aforementioned studies on healing environments, for instance, may be too specific to be implemented directly into other designs, but they provide insights that can be integrated into empathic processes, as do the theories on cognitive science of architectural experience. So, it is through this system and its integration with other systems that we can talk about concepts or messages that are communicated by architecture, based on their physical composition and the actions, both practical and emotional, that they make possible. Keywords: actions; architecture; body; design; environment; experience; hall; impact; members; parliament; users; vol; world
• On Foot. Embodied Atmospheres by Mihalache, Andreea (2023) - First step: Walking in Bernardo(’s) Sandals Challenging what he criticized as the straitjacket of fashion, in 1946 the architect, designer, and author Bernard Rudofsky launched the line of footwear Bernardo Sandals. One Fig 1: Bernard Rudofsky, Plan of the Procida House project published in Domus, Issue 123 (March 1938) 173 isparchitecture.com such example (which he describes in a later book) are the Neolithic houses in Lindenthal, Germany discovered in the early decades of the twentieth century, and which reveal to Rudofsky a methodical architectural strategy that is neither accidental nor clumsy.42 Central to their design is the sculpted floor that celebrates the intimate encounter of the body with the earth and, as the authors infers, situates the individual in a specific horizon of inhabitation: What lifts the Lindenthal houses above the commonplace is their sculpted floor. Keywords: architectural; atmospheres; body; böhme; design; floor; ground; house; new; rudofsky; space; time; touch

• The Image in Power: Vilém Flusser and the Craft of Architecture by Loureiro, Felipe Guimarães de Souza Fernandes (2024) - In his 1982 essay Architecture as Drawing, Alberto Pérez-Gómez describes the development of architectural drawing throughout history, focusing on the Renaissance notion that architectural drawings were images of an architectural idea, “implying ‘look’, ‘semblance’, and ‘form.” As an architect, I cannot feel at ease with this reduction, and this unsettling led me to pursue a deeper understanding of the way we experience architectural images. Keywords: apparatus; architects; architecture; drawings; flusser; ibid; images; work
• Monism and Pluralism: The History of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Architecture by Guyer, Paul (2024) - I refer to the theory of architecture adumbrated by John Ruskin in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, which even though it must be shorn of some of the Romantic assumptions long ago pointed out by Geoffrey Scott,1 nevertheless offers at least a model for (what Part I identified as) a synthetizing rather than separatist approach to architecture. No 2 . 2015 242 GU Y ER makes clear the emotional impact of the sublime in architecture on the author, but on the author only as a representative of us all: we cannot think of “the works of God upon the earth” and “the dominion over those works which has been vested in man” as “intellectual Lamps of Architecture” without also experiencing a profound emotional response.32 But the emotional dimension of architectural experience has been on display since the outset of Ruskin’s book, beginning with the first “Lamp of Sacrifice.” Keywords: architecture; experience; ibid; lamps; pleasure; ruskin; work
• Whatever Happened To Semi-Autonomy? by Owen, Graham (2016) - Louis Martin, “Frederic Jameson and Critical Architecture,” in The Political Unconscious of Architecture: Re-opening Jameson’s Narrative, ed. In his subsequent writings on this theme of critical architecture, most notably in his books Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject, of 1992, and Architecture’s Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde, of 2010, Hays’s exemplars and his arguments undergo shifts. Keywords: anderson; architecture; autonomy; hays; ibid; koolhaas; martin; michael; new; somol; speaks; time; work
• Enigma as Moral Requirement in the Wake of Ledoux's Work: Autonomy and Expression in Architecture by Garrido, Alberto Rubio (2016) - Such limitations notwithstanding, an architectural theory and practice was established during the twentieth century with a determined effort to reach autonomous architecture, or something very much like it, as its cornerstone. Section V deploys that ‘alternative’ to demonstrate autonomy as one of the greatest (and definitely ongoing) challenges modern architecture 65 isparchitecture.com has faced since the Enlightenment. Keywords: adorno; architecture; art; autonomy; concept; kant; kaufmann; ledoux; modernity; schiller; sense; society; work
• Architecture Is Concealed unto Itself: Helmuth Plessner and his Influence on Twentieth-Century Architecture by Adler, Gerald (2018) - Bodily movement in space was her guiding principle; […] Plessner explained ‘designed’ more precisely, in that she drew for him, and they ‘spurred each other on’ FIGURE 1: Lucy Hillebrand, Plessner House, Göttingen (1951-52). And yet Plessner had already described such an embodied approach to space, anticipating Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s later writings, as the extraordinary passage from his 1923 book The Unity FIGURE 2: Lucy Hillebrand, Plessner House, Göttingen (1951-52). Keywords: anthropology; architecture; buildings; culture; der; die; form; frank; heidegger; helmuth; helmuth plessner; hillebrand; house; human; law; man; plessner; und; vol; work; world; writings
• Useless Speculation: Architectural Obsolescence and the Micro-Parcels of Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates (1973) by Fox, Rick (2020) - Architectural Obsolescence: The Eye of the Speculator Fake Estates, far from being a curious leftover side- project to Matta Clark’s more well-known building cut projects, is one tent-pole for expressing his over- arching concerns with the related ideas of waste and obsolescence. The discrete works we know today as Fake Estates were assembled posthumously, in 1992, by his widow Jane Crawford, prompted by the urging of Corrine Diserens, a curator from the Institut Valencià d’art Modern (IVAM) in Valencia Spain who was researching a Matta-Clark retrospective, using the original materials he collected. Keywords: architecture; city; clark; estates; gordon; matta; new; obsolescence; parcels; value; work; york

• The architecture of ethics: Stanley Tigerman by Petit, Emmanuel (2014) - The participants of the exhibition conceived of “Chicago Architects” as a sort of salon des refusés, which was scheduled to be on display at the Richard Gray Gallery simultaneously with the “official” and “canonical” retrospective of Chicago architecture at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, entitled “A Hundred Years of Chicago Architecture: Continuity of Form and Structure.”13 If given the choice, Tigerman would certainly side with the anti-philosophers ... constructing himself as a sort of anti-architect, who cannot leave the discipline because it is what fuels his resistance— the resistance to all these fantasies of perfection, synthesis and performance—of “do-good-ism” in the world. Keywords: american; architects; architecture; chicago; discipline; emmanuel; kierkegaard; mies; new; tigerman; time; vol; war; world; york
• The Myth of Autonomy by Coleman, Nathaniel (2024) - Conversely, it seems, then, that Utopia holds out a potential resolution to the problem of renewed purpose and relevance for architecture, fortifying it to act against the solvent of capitalism, the very same condition that inspired most of the doomed attempts at architectures of autonomy in the first place. Intriguingly, the idea of freedom that best describes a wide range of autonomy projects in architecture is transcendental (in the sense of being a priori or preternatural), rather than empirical (in the sense of being experiential or pragmatic).8 In this regard, perhaps the opposition ought to be more simply stated as the ‘pure’ as opposed to the ‘impure’, which in terms of Utopia could be indicated as the difference between the ‘abstract’ (transcendental) and the ‘concrete (empirical). Keywords: architects; architecture; autonomy; capitalist; ibid; lefebvre; project; schumacher; self; tafuri; utopia; way
• From Autonomy To Pragmatism: Objects Made Moral by Lefebvre, Pauline (2016) - No 2 . 2015 28 LE FE BV RE specificity of the field (as producing and caring about objects) but not its mission of resistance; the objections against the postcritical (critical practice) reaffirm both the necessity to engage the context and to do so critically, meaning from a position of moral autonomy. Following some recent interpretations of pragmatism, this paper addresses the possibility of an immanent critique, the reconciliation of ethics and aesthetics, the way ethnographies show architectural objects as active participants in design practice, and investigates how a pragmatist view of ecology invites sensitivity to objects’ moral claims. Keywords: architects; architecture; autonomy; criticality; moral; objects; pragmatist; responsibility; whiting
• Should Architects Refrain From Designing Prisons for Long-term Solitary Confinement? — An Open Letter to the Architecture Profession by Spector, Tom; Borkenhagen, Craig; Davis, Mark; Foster, Carrie; Gann, Jacob; Her, Tou Lee; Klossner, Aaron; Murta, Evan; Rankin, Ryan; Rodriguez Santos, Maria Cristina; Tascott, Connor; Turner, Sarah; Williams, Spencer (2019) - Recent Supreme Court attitudes toward solitary confinement reverse, somewhat, the opinion expressed in the nineteenth century, when it observed that solitary confinement “was an additional punishment of the most important and painful character,” IN RE MEDLEY, 134 U.S. 160 (1890) We will only take up the case against solitary confinement. Keywords: architects; confinement; effects; prison; solitary; term; torture
• Architectural Responsibilities and the Right to a City by Fisher, Saul (2023) - And since, in the case of realizing or satisfying RTTC-wise sub-rights, we cannot expect architectural agents (whether as individuals or in the aggregate) to satisfy such rights—either across the whole of a city or for the entire duration of its existence—spatially and temporally modest targets are called for. If citizens of all backgrounds and housing settings have rights to flourishing in the city, as entails a further right to public safety, then we have identified some level of responsibility for realizing such rights as may be apportioned to architectural agents. Keywords: agents; architects; city; lefebvre; life; obligations; public; responsibilities; rights; rttc; sub; urban

• Call for Papers by Fahey, Carolyn A. (2016) - Architecture as a source of philosophical knowledge of human beings: • These questions view the same phenomenon from two different perspectives: architecture can tell us something about the human condition (in general or in a particular culture) and we can derive insights about architecture from our understanding of human beings. Keywords: anthropology; architecture; beings; human
• On Durability by Hvattum, Mari (2018) - If Hannah Arendt wrote of the reification of work into a world of things that in turn stabilizes and lends durability to human life, then we can perhaps speak of architecture as a reification of human action into built form. In a collection dedicated to the human in architecture, Draculić’s “eternity” offers, I believe, a poignant point of departure. Keywords: architecture; bridge; bötticher; der; durability; eternity; form; human; life; matter; semper; sundt; vol; world
• Book Review: Is There an Object Oriented Architecture? Engaging Graham Harman by Spector, Tom (2022) - Harman’s premise is that objects have existences that always exceed our ability to quantify, narrate, use or otherwise apprehend them. To go a bit deeper into Harman’s critique and his assertions about OOO, Harman thinks that much modern thought makes the mistake of either undermining objects by dissembling them into their most fundamental constituent parts—to the point where they cease to be recognizable, or else they tend to “overmine” them by relegating them to their effects as events, or networks, or power relations. Keywords: harman; human; objects; ooo; things
• Property, Necessity and Housing. Reconsidering the Situated Right to a Place to Be by Brandl, Erika (2023) - Human freedom, autonomy, health, dignity, agency— these notions are to be safeguarded by enforcing property rights, because such rights suppose a basic guarantee of security. In the last part of this article, I utilize the political philosophy of Alejandra Mancilla to clarify the moral underpinnings of property rights. Keywords: basic; dwelling; freedom; house; housing; human; individuals; necessity; property; public; right

• Trying to think in a connected sort of way: Andrew Ballantyne in conversation with Stefan Koller by Koller, Stefan (2014) - At what point does moving on and engaging with people like Deleuze and Guattari become a move towards philosophical questions? Andrew Ballantyne’s books include Key Buildings From Prehistory to the Present: Plans, Sections and Elevations, 2012 Architecture in the Space of Flows, 2012 (co-edited by C. Smith) Deleuze and Guattari for Architects, 2007 Architecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture, 2005 Architecture and Experience: Radical Change in Spatial Practice, 2004 Architectures: Modernism and After, 2004 Architecture: A Very Short Introduction, 2002 What is Architecture?, 2002 Architecture, Landscape and Liberty: Richard Payne Knight and the Picturesque, 1997 Andrew Ballantyne and Stefan koller Trying to think in a connected sort of way Andrew Ballantyne in conversation with stefan koller Question: You’ve written Deleuze and Guattari for Architects, you’ve written on architecture philosophy, but originally you’ve written things that were maybe not so clearly yet situated within the philosophy of architecture. Keywords: architecture; way
• Non-Projects for the Uninhabitable: Lyotard's Architecture Philosophy by Woodward, Ashley (2022) - The great mutation in this model of space that Lyotard identifies is not between the rural village and the metropolis—he understands the latter as maintaining intact the inside/outside, and the border between them. In painting, Lyotard notes, there is also an analog insofar as urban planning has been represented using 39 isparchitecture.com a uniform organization of space – such as in “The Ideal City” by the school of Piero della Francesca (circa late 15th century), one of the first to apply the principles of perspective prescribed by Alberti’s Keywords: architecture; body; domus; habitus; home; lyotard; megalopolis; postmodern; project; space; way

• Architecture as Participation in the World: Merleau-Ponty, Wölfflin, and the Bodily Experience of the Built Environment by Irwin, Brian (2019) - And in this intertwining of body and world is the possibility of a certain kind of expression, an elevation of the experience of inhabitation as such. No 1 . 2019 98 ir w in object, then it would make sense to understand architecture – the practice of providing the means of inhabitation for human bodies – as expressing the “basic conditions of organic life;”34 that is, as being organized according to the same principles as those by which our bodily experience is organized. Keywords: architecture; body; experience; merleau; ponty; sense; world; wölfflin

• Public Space. Conflicts and Antinomies. by Wallenstein, Sven-Olov (2023) - ZURICH (2022) The idea of public space is crucial for our political imagination, precisely because it is perceived as being not only threatened, but even as on the way toward extinction. In this sense, two competing versions could be given: the first one would tell a story of the rise and fall of public space, and it is probably the most common one; the second, which is less frequent, presents public space as always and structurally constituted by a conflict that will make it into a space of struggle, where the dreams of undistorted communication not only cover over the reality of power, but in fact are instrumental for its deployment. Keywords: enlightenment; fact; idea; kant; kind; political; politics; reason; sense; space
• A Site of Struggle. An Interview with Margaret Crawford by Teerds, Hans (2023) - Sorkin presents it apocalyptically: ‘the end of public space.’ As he announces in his introduction: this is an alarming perspective, as public space is directly related to the issue of democracy, the interaction, the possibility of protests, the proximity of otherness, the existence of fringes.2 Crawford’s opening article examines the development and features of malls and mall life. Keywords: mall; new; park; people; public; right; space
• Anonymity in Jianghu: Hong Kong's Urban Space in Times of Crisis by Lorenz, Esther (2023) - In absence of any certainty or promising outlook in the face of the expiry date of Hong Kong’s status as Special Administration in 2047 and following a severe loss of trust in their government to uphold and defend the rights of Hong Kong citizens stipulated in the Basic Law, the radical branch of Hong Kong protesters took a momentous step to withdraw themselves from the established order and governmental care to fight for their own vision of political justice. They became invisible to the authorities’ cameras and face recognition software yet remained highly visible to Hong Kong citizens looking up from the streetscape, over from adjoining walkways or down from office and residential towers. Keywords: china; city; family; government; hong; hong kong; jianghu; kong; life; order; protests; public; space; water

• Monism and pluralism: The history of aesthetics and the philosophy of architecture - Part I by Guyer, Paul (2014) - isparchitecture.com Monism and Pluralism: The History of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Architecture - Part I Paul Guyer I. Monism and Pluralism in the Early History of Aesthetics One way to think about the history of aesthetics since its inception as a properly named subdiscipline of philosophy in the early eighteenth century is to think of it as a debate about the right way to understand the relations among the terms of the Neo-Platonist triad comprised by the true, the good, and the beautiful: do these terms designate three separate domains of human interest, the theoretical, the practical and moral, and the aesthetic, the boundaries between which must be sharply defined and maintained, or do they designate three aspects of human experience that can and should be fused in practice, indeed do they suggest that the distinctive function of art among human activities is precisely to fuse our natural love of beauty with our theoretical and moral concerns, to provide a kind of unity in human experience that we otherwise do not find?1 Immanuel Kant might be thought to be the foremost of separatists rather than synthesizers in the modern history of aesthetics: his definition in the “Analytic of the Beautiful” in the Critique of the Power of Judgment of the “judgment of taste” as “aesthetic,” where that means that it is neither cognitive nor practical, that on the one hand “In order to decide whether or not something is beautiful, we do not relate the representation by means of understanding to the object for cognition”2 and that on the other hand “The agreeable, the beautiful, and the good...designate three different relations of representations to the feeling of pleasure and displeasure,” that “One can AP . Kant’s position in aesthetics is actually more complicated than these opening remarks suggest: they are part of an initial analysis of the simplest experience of beauty, but by no means a complete statement of his account of art, a fortiori of architecture. Keywords: aesthetics; architecture; art; beauty; experience; hegel; idea; kant; play; schopenhauer; vol
• Is beauty still relevant? Is art? Is architecture? by Coleman, Nathaniel (2014) - As Kuspit suggests, the commodification of art, and the overabundant stimuli available to us through electronic and mechanical production and reproduction of art works, has made it all but impossible for us to gain access to the truth of art, or the shocking nature of this.12 Even so, most of us have had encounters with works of art that have left us moved, even shaken, and these tend to be the most memorable, because the profoundest. Art and Shock: Coomaraswamy In his own attempts to challenge an aesthetic view of art Coomaraswamy also found it necessary to refer to ‘shock’ to describe an alternative. Keywords: architecture; art; beauty; body; experience; ideas; senses; vattimo
• Rethinking aesthetics: The role of body in design / Edited by Ritu Bhatt by Spector, Tom (2014) - Though they do not directly engage architecture theory, these ideas could surely be the basis for substantial further work. Johnson’s reappraisal of Dewey’s relevance provides both a sensitive and well-reasoned set of implications for embodied aesthetics. Keywords: aesthetics; art; body; essay

• Essentialism and Spatial (Re)production by Bross, Benjamin (2022) - Hence, the essay is not about natural kinds, but rather, about the essential qualities of produced spatial objects. Therefore, attitudes towards spatial objects are in themselves accidental, that is, susceptible to the passage of time and the concurrent evolution of value-systems. Keywords: cause; context; essence; essentialism; example; identity; object; production; properties; qualities; set; time; value; wall

• How Not to Be at Home in One's Home: Adorno's Critique of Architectural Reason by Waggoner, Matt (2019) - Theodor Adorno, “Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America” in Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998, pp. 215-242); Adorno, “Foreword” in Prisms. how not to be at home in one’s home: adorno’s critique of architectural reason matt waggoner Adorno wrote prolifically about modernism in culture and the arts, but little has been written about whether or in what form he might have addressed architectural concerns. Keywords: adorno; architecture; corbusier; dwelling; heidegger; home; house; housing; life; man; new; property; relation; shelter
• On the Use and Abuse of Historical Monuments for Life: Nietzsche And Confederate Monuments by Paden, Roger (2019) - We need antiquarian history to help ground us in that which is valuable in our lives; critical history to distance ourselves from our mistakes; and monumental history to inspire us to significant action. The first is “antiquarian history.” Keywords: antiquarian; approach; confederate; history; life; monuments; new; nietzsche; past; statues

• Editorial by Fahey, Carolyn (2017) - Entitled “Use-Value in Architecture: Reconceptualizing Buildings’ Functions,” the symposium raised a host of questions related to the notion of function in architecture’s Modernist discourse and called upon Wittgenstein’s notion of meaning as use to aid in its resolution: The setting stimulated difficult conversations about Wittgenstein, architecture, and architecture’s Modernism. Keywords: architecture; house; wittgenstein

• Semiotic Naturalism in Architecture Theory by Due, Reidar (2017) - It is argued that there are four categories of things that can be said about architecture: construction, style, use, and ideology, and that a difficulty of architecture theory is the possible unification of these categories. The modernist program of the early twentieth century and its continuation in architecture theory of our time can be defined as the effort to provide an aesthetic rationale for an industrial process of production and then to amplify this aesthetic program within a fitting social ideology: concrete is an industrial construction tool. Keywords: architecture; buildings; categories; construction; ideology; meaning; norberg; style; theory
• Book Review: The Aesthetics of Architecture by Roger Scruton by Heynen, Hilde (2017) - Semiotics was, at that moment, a central concern in architectural culture, and many authors sought to develop an approach to architecture that could go beyond the functionalism and rationalism of the modern movement. Scruton understands ‘theory’ as prescriptive: “architectural theory consists in the attempt to formulate the maxims, rules and precepts which govern, or ought to govern, the practice of the builder” Keywords: aesthetics; architecture; book; scruton; theory

• The Space of the Lacerated Subject: Architecture And Abjection by Akahane-Bryen, Sean; Smith, Chris L. (2019) - We follow Kristeva and Georges Bataille in asserting that the necessary differentiations which occur between selves and other subjects in early childhood (especially the mothers and fathers and psychoanalytic fixation) also—or first—play themselves out in the differentiations of selves from objects (our blankets, nursery walls, and doors). Significantly, Kristeva credits Georges Bataille as the first philosopher to have “specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/ object relationship (and not subject/other subject).”6 As such, the earliest beginnings of the subject involve an extraction not from other subjects, but what will become objects: Do we not find, sooner (chronologically and logically speaking) Keywords: abjection; architecture; bataille; cathedral; georges; hollier; horror; ibid; kristeva; object; press; subject

• Editorial: Essence and Architecture by Spector, Tom (2022) - The reasonable conclusion to draw then, is that a work of architecture must justify itself qua architecture—assuming we understand and can defend what that means. Thus, architecture and philosophy have found editorial: Essence and architecture tom spector AP . Keywords: architecture; essence; harman; object

• Editorial by Koller, Stefan; Spector, Tom (2016) - While no one would accuse such Heidegger early and middle work mainstays as Being and Time, “The Origin of the Work of Art,” or “Building Dwelling Thinking,” of being breezy reads, Aurenque and Architecture Philosophy hope to initiate a correction to the neglect of Heidegger’s later works by architectural audiences enthralled with BT, “OWA,” and “BDT,” due in no small part to the later works’ reputation for impenetrability, by mapping a wide range of Heidegger’s works characteristic of the late period—above all, his commentaries on Hölderlin’s poetry. A similar conclusion is reached by Diana Aurenque in her essay on Heidegger’s late ethics, AP . Keywords: architecture; autonomy; dwelling; heidegger; man

• Heidegger On Thinking About Ethos And Man's Dwelling by Aurenque, Diana (2016) - 2. Martin Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism,” in the Heidegger Gesamt- sausgabe (GA), volume 9, page 358.—Translator’s note: The Gesamtsausgabe is an ongoing effort to collect the complete works of Heidegger in German. ”38 Heidegger calls this “persistence of a persisting fate” “the measure of actual dwelling,”39 as it shows itself in the measure of actual poetic dwelling. Keywords: dwelling; ethos; heidegger; man; measure; poetic; poetry

• Book Reviews by Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten; Spector, Tom (2019) - On the other hand, bo ok r ev iew s 104 Wang does not address the theme of criticality that was important not only for Zhu but also for critics of Chinese architecture like Peter Eisenman who had once declared Chinese architecture conservative and accommodating because it lacks a tradition of resistance. This assertion put Chinese architecture on a completely different track missed by most Western architects. Keywords: architecture; book; china; chinese; nature; wang

• Call for Papers: International Wittgenstein Symposium by Philosophy, Architecture (2024) - More details regarding full paper submission will be provided at the time of the event. submission Types Authors are invited to submit full papers, response pieces, and book reviews. Keywords: architecture; use; wittgenstein

• Call for Papers: Building as Service by Jensen, Mark; Fahey, Carolyn; Spector, Tom (2017) - Buildings such as the British Parliament, the Russian Kremlin, and the U.S. Capitol stand out not just as iconic architecture, but also as representative of the politics, institutions, and culture of their nations. The fact that buildings are so strongly associated with various power holding empires, nation-states and other forms of civilization is widely recognized in the study of both the history of people and their buildings. Keywords: architecture; buildings
• Book Review: Ugliness and Judgement: On Architecture in the Public Eye by Jensen, Mark (2020) - He is also right in refusing to be caught up in the ideological or reductivist games of providing the definition of ugly architecture and then justifying this definition through cherry-picked examples. As he goes on to explain, the third register is one of feeling: ugly architecture can evoke disgust, irritation, or antipathy. Keywords: architecture; buildings; hyde; ugliness

• On the Political, Public Space and the Possibility of a Critical Architecture by Mouffe, Chantal (2023) - In a reference to Immanuel Kant, in her book Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, she refers to his idea of enlarged thought.4 For Arendt, this idea is a model of political practices, which testifies that her conception of pluralism is in fact inscribed in the horizon of an intersubjective agreement. Since all forms of political identities entail a “we/them” distinction, this means that the possibility of emergence of antagonism can never be eliminated. Keywords: antagonism; dimension; hegemonic; politics; practices; view

• Appendix: Heidegger's "Man's Dwelling" by Cruz, Cesar A. (2016) - Richard Sieburth (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), 66-67; Friedrich Hölderlin, Hölderlin: His Poems, trans. Michael Hamburger (London: The Harvill Press, 1952), 188-189; and Hölderlin, Friedrich Hölderlin: Poems and Fragments, 398-399. 7. Keywords: earth; heavenly; hölderlin; measure; poetic

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