Rethinking Dwelling and Building. On Martin Heidegger’s conception of Being as Dwelling and Jørn Utzon’s Architecture of Well-being
2013; University of Zaragoza; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2387-0346
Autores Tópico(s)Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
ResumoThe German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s seminal essay “Building, Dwelling, Thinking”, published in 1954, is one of the texts which has had most influence on architectural thinking in the second half of 20th and early 21st century. What much of modern and postmodern architectural thinking extracts from Heidegger’s text and revolves around is the understanding of building and dwelling as more or less abstract forms of being without taking into account the people inhabiting space. In these traditions little has been said about what the Danish architect Jorn Utzon adds to the term “being” and announces as the most important aspect of architecture: Well-being understood as human well-being. The present paper means to re-interpret Heidegger’s text critically in order to rethink dwelling and building within an architectural context, presenting Jorn Utzon’s work and thinking as a lifelong search for the architecture of well-being
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