Unhoused
Subtitle: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling
Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Published: Apr 02, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781941332399
Description: Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling' is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered "impossible" by nativism, by the decimations of war, and, in the postwar period, by housing's increasingly thorough assimilation into private property. 0'Unhoused' tracks four figurations of troubled dwelling in Adorno's texts-homelessness, no man's lands, the nature theater, and the ironic property relation-and reads them as timely interventions and challenges for today's architecture, housing, and senses of belonging. Entangled as we are in juridical and financial frameworks that adhere to a very different logic, these figurations ask what it means to organize, design, build, and cohabit in ways that enliven non-exclusive relations to ourselves, others, objects, and place.
Notes: Source title: Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling