Rethinking Dwelling

Heidegger, Place, Architecture

Distinguished Professor Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia)

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Bloomsbury Academic
23 February 2023

Theory of architecture; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

Over the last twenty years, Jeff Malpas’ research has involved his engagement with architects and other academics around the issues of place, architecture and landscape and particularly the way these practitioners have used the work of Martin Heidegger.

In Rethinking Dwelling, Malpas’ primary focus is to rethink of these issues in a way that is directly informed by an understanding of place and the human relation it. With essays on a range of architectural and design concerns, as well as engaging with other thinkers on topics including textuality in architecture, contemporary high-rise construction, the significance of the line, the relation between building and memory and the idea of authenticity in architecture, this book departs from the traditional phenomenological focus and provides students and scholars with a new ontological assessment of landscape and architecture. As such, it may also be used on other ‘spatial’ or ‘topographic’ disciplines including geography, sociology, anthropology, and art in which the ‘spatial turn’ has been so important.

By: Distinguished Professor Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350253148
ISBN 10: 1350253146
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 23 February 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Place, Architecture, Landscape Chapter One: Rethinking Dwelling Chapter Two: Architecture and Truth Chapter Three: Memory and the Built Chapter Four: Verticality and the Street Chapter Five: The Line and the Hand Chapter Six: Landscape and Interiority Chapter Seven: Place and Parametricism Chapter Eight: Design and the Human Chapter Nine: Hermeneutics and Architecture Chapter Ten: Against Authenticity Epilogue: Rethinking Architecture Bibliography Index

Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His books include The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Philosophy and The City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives (2019).

Reviews for Rethinking Dwelling: Heidegger, Place, Architecture

Malpus succeeds at a difficult task: to garner fresh insights from already well-trodden territory. Sensitive to the dynamic relationships between organisms/persons and environments/lifeworlds, the book explores the historically unfolding modes of being-in-place. The tangle of major figures and positions is laid out with admirable clarity, as are the phenomena of dwelling, home, authenticity, identity, displacement, and exclusion. --Robert Mugerauer, Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Built Environments, University of Washington, USA This book is a meticulous investigation of the layers of meaning in Martin Heidegger's writings and lectures related with dwelling and architecture. The writer points out the misreadings and misinterpretations of numerous commentators of the philosopher's writings, and reveals meanings that have been entirely passed or lost. In its precise, careful and calm argumentation Jeff Malpas' treatise is an exemplary philosophical study, especially for persons engaged in the multilayered field of architecture. Regardless of its philosophical tone, it is an evocative and assuring presentation of the mental grounding of dwelling and architecture. --Juhani Pallasmaa, architect HonSAFA, HonFAIA, IntFRIBA, professor emeritus, Aalto University, Member of the Pritzker Prize Jury 2008-2014, Finland