The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Notes
1 See Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny:
Essays in the Modern Unhomely (Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 1992).
2 The quotation about “expanded intercourse”
is from Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations
of the Critique of Political Economy, trans.
Martin Nicolaus (Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1973), p. 540. For further critical discussion of
the “center-periphery” model, see my “The Broken
World: Whose Centre, Whose Periphery?”
in Migrancy, Culture, Identity (London: Routledge,
1993), pp. 67–91.
3 Kojin Karatani, Architecture as Metaphor:
Language, Number, Money, ed. Michael Speaks,
trans. Sabu Kohso (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 1995).
4 Martin Heidegger, “Building Dwelling
Thinking,” in Basic Writings: From “Being and
Time” (1927) to “The Task of Thinking,” ed. David
Farrell Krell (New York: Harper and Row,
1977), p. 324. His point emerges from considering
the etymology of bauen, “to build,” and is justified
as follows: “Man acts as though he were the
shaper and master of language, while in fact language
remains the master of man. Perhaps it is before
all else man’s subversion of this relation of
domination that drives his essential nature into
alienation.”
5 Martin Heidegger, “The Turning,” in The
Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays,
trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper, 1977),
p. 48.
6 Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning
Technology,” in The Question Concerning Technology,
pp. 12–15.
7 Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House (New
York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981). For Eisenman,
see his essay in William Lillyman, Marilyn
Moriarty, and David Neuman, eds., Critical Architecture
and Contemporary Culture (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1994).
8 The telescoping of time in a moment of
danger is a clear allusion to Walter Benjamin’s
“Theses on the Philosophy of History” (in Illuminations,
ed. Hannah Arendt and trans. Harry
Zohn [London: Cape, 1970], pp. 253–264), as
well as to his intuitive imbrication of the baroque
in his reading of modernity (see esp. Das Pas-
Architecture, Amnesia, and the Emergent Archaic
sagen-Werk [Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag,
1982]).
9 Edward Soja, “Inside Exopolis: Scenes from
Orange County,” in Variations on a Theme Park:
The New American City and the End of Public Space,
ed. Michael Sorkin (New York: Hill and Wang,
1992), pp. 94–122.
10 Martin Heidegger, “The Age of the World
Pictures,” in The Question Concerning Technology, p.
117.
11 Gianni Vattimo, “Dialettica, differenza,
pensiero debole,” in Il pensiero debole, ed. Gianni
Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti (Milan: Feltrinelli,
1983).
12 Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,”
p. 332.
13 See Richard Sennett, “Something in the
City: The Spectre of Uselessness and the Search
for a Place in the World,” Times Literary Supplement,
22 September 1995.
14 Jacques Derrida, “Letter to Peter Eisenman,”
in Critical Architecture and Contemporary
Culture, eds. William Lillyman, Marilyn Moriarty,
and David Neuman (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1994). The letter is dated 12
October 1989.
15 Paul Ricoeur, “Architecture and Narrative,”
in Identity and Difference: Integration and Plurality
in Today’s Forms: Cultures between the Ephemeral and
the Lasting, catalogue of the Triennale di Milano,
XIX Esposizione Internazionale (Milan: Electa,
1996), pp. 64–72; quotation, p. 68.
16 Emmanuel Lévinas, Totality and Infinity: An
Essay on Exteriority, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh:
Duquesne University Press, 1969), pp.
194–195.
17 Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny, p. 200.
Vidler is describing the experimental architecture
of Wiel Arets.
18 “Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the
shepherd of Being.” Martin Heidegger, “Letter
on Humanism,” in Basic Writings, p. 221.