Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space Architecture After Arendt: The New Spaces of Appearance, (Hardcover)

<p><b>This book brings an Arendtian lens to architectural inquiry, as the discipline confronts the legacies of material extraction, indigenous dispossession, and energy intensive design ideals. </b> </p><p>Hannah Arendt was an imminently spatial theorist. Her reflections on the space of appearance, a radical modernization of the Greek agora, have foregrounded notions of relationality, plurality, and speech in the context of contemporary political thought. As much a theorist of the ontological conditions of politics-recognition, togetherness, belonging-her work sought to interrogate the forms of material care that sustain the political realm. To this end, her work explores the meaning of living in a human world on a planetary earth, asking questions in relation to how those communities might cultivate artistic immortality and translate care for others into environmental responsibility. </p><p>This work leans on Arendt at a moment in architectural discourse when the discipline is required, as Arendt once was, to "think without a banister." Departing from the stronghold of architectural ideologies-whether that is the fiction of building from a tabula rasa, the architect as sole creator, or the staged equivalence between architecture and political solutions-this book offers an Arendtian narrative of architecture.</p>

• Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space Architecture After Arendt: The New Spaces of Appearance, (Hardcover)
• Author: Lucy Benjamin
• ISBN: 9798216197195
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-02-18
• Page Count: 240