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- Political Tectonics
- Abstract
- In his essay, Patchen Markell reconstructs two instances in which Arendt could have discussed architecture, but did not. Through these moments, he relates the architecture term ‘tectonics’ with Arendt’s political reflections: the making visible of how a building bears or distributes its loads (architectural tectonics), and the making visible of how a community bears and distributes its (social and political) burdens (political tectonics). Arendt argues that the proper form of objects transcends their use, and thus reaches for the political question of how ‘the world should look’. Markell again argues that a tectonic dimension of architecture in a broader sense also includes this political question.
- Citation
- Markell, P. (2020). Political Tectonics. Table Settings. . Reflections on architecture with Hannah Arendt, OASE, (106), 41–47. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/106/PoliticalTectonics
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- Editors of this issue
- Hans Teerds, Christoph Grafe, Catherine Koekoek
- Authors
- Pier Vittorio Aureli (Dogma), Geoge Baird, Jeffrey Bolhuis (AP+E Office) & Tara Kennedy, Patrick Bouchain (Construire), Ken De Cooman (BC Architects), Nicola Delon (Encore Heureux), Mary Duggan (Mary Duggan Architects), Pauline Fockeday, Anne Geenen (Site Practice), Christoph Grafe, Catherine Koekoek, Hannah Knoop (Studioeurope), Patchen Markell, Véronique Patteeuw, Cecilia Sjöholm, Hans Teerds, Ard de Vries (Ard de Vries Architecten) & Donna van Milligen Bielke (Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke)
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- July 2020
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