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 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
Romantic provincialism 72
Poetically, Man Dwells 75
Poetic measuring 76
Making sense 82
Authenticity 87
5 Heidegger and Architects 91
Steamy waters 91
Professional expertise 97
Another tradition of modern architecture 99
Representation and meaning 101
Regionalism 104
Choreographing experience 105
Phenomenology and politics 111
Imagination infected 114
Further Reading 115
Bibliography 117
Index 123