Building, Dwelling, Thinking by Martin Heidegger
The essay argues that building is not merely technical construction but a way of dwelling: to dwell is to belong to a place and to let beings show themselves, a condition made intelligible by the “fourfold” (earth, sky, mortals, divinities). Thoughtful building should reveal and sustain this dwelling, while modern technological approaches tend to enfranchise space as mere resource and thereby undermine human rootedness; recovering authentic dwelling requires rethinking how we build so that places preserve meaning, intimacy, and care rather than only function.
- Published
- 1951
- Nationality
- German
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- Unknown
- Original Language
- German
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- Alternate Titles
- - Bauen Wohnen Denken
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