blage that is sensitive to the multiplicities of context à [I]t is my understanding that, as an anthropomorphic synthesis of construction and the act of construing, architecture seeks to harmonize the art of building with the art of living (p. 693).
In turn, the paper will attempt to connect the first two to the third term in Heidegger's essayùôthinkingö. With respect to this third term, the paper will analyze how it relates to the notion of poetry and poetics as the foundational builder for/of humanity. It seems unusual, at first, for Heidegger to list ôthinkingö as part of a triad that includes ôbuildingö and ôdwelling.ö One would think that the first two are purely physical activities while the third has to do with mental processes. But the paper will attempt to show that there is an intricate and unbreakable connection between the three terms. As well, the paper will show how Heidegger argued for the holding together of these three concepts and, as a corollary, the dangers of allowing them to drift apart (as he and many modern thinkers argue has taken place todayùor rather since the time of Descartes).
II. Heidegger, Modernity and Post-Modernity
The modern urban landscape has been considered by many writers and philosophers as a place where the linkages between the individual and community have been cutùor at the very least severely damaged to the point of being non-recognizable. Adorno (1978), for example, describes the city as filled with ôliving-casesö where people c`rried on their detached lives without any sense of connection to neighbour or any sense of community and where ôdwelling, in the proper sense, is now impossibleö (p. 38).
Writer and novelist Robert Musil, in his short story ôThe Blackbird,ö describes the dire functionality of the modern city apartment complex in this way: ôLove, sleep, birth, digestion, unexpected reunions, troubled and restful nights are all vertically aligne...