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OASE 106

Table Settings. Reflections on architecture with Hannah Arendt

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Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s remarkably spatial view on ‘the world and its inhabitants’

> Positioning a new outlook on philosopher Hannah Arendt’s ideas, OASE 106 reveils how her writings very well can help us rethink architecture as a phenomenon and practice.

The German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) once stated that spatial thinking is 'political' thinking, as it is concerned about the world and its inhabitants. We certainly can understand spatial thinking here as architectural thinking: the ‘world’ for Arendt meant the ways in which we make the globe habitable for people: how we build houses and cities, infrastructures and other networks, and furnish spaces with tables, chairs, paintings and photographs. According to Arendt, this world-of-things was crucial for political life: it is this world that simultaneously connects people and separates them, just like a table organises the people (and the conversation) around it.

This OASE examines architecture - design, building, built environment - from this perspective. The issue opens with an introduction to Arendt's political thinking, and how it is connected to the (production of) the world. Next, a variety of architects, including George Baird, Patrick Bouchain, Pier Vittorio Aureli, and Mary Duggan, will have the floor to examine their daily practice from Arendt's perspective.

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ISBN 978-94-6208-561-9 | July 2020 | available | Hans Teerds, Christoph Grafe, Catherine Koekoek (kernredactie) met bijdragen van: 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, Veronique Patteeuw, Cecilia Sjoholm, Hans Teerds, Ard de Vries (Ard de Vries Architecten) & Donna van Milligen Bielke (Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke) | design: Karel Martens en Aagje Martens | Dutch, English | 17 x 24 cm | 128 pages | illustrated (50 b/w)

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