Building a beginning: tasks of the philosophy of architecture

Ludger Schwarte (Munster, 1965) is a professor of philosophy at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf. He is widely considered one of the most important representatives of the philosophy of architecture, a discipline that has been developing rapidly in the last two decades and whose relevance is increasingly increasing. In his monumental book Philosophie der Architektur (2009), he develops a political & horbar;and not merely aesthetic or symbolic & horbar; philosophy of architecture. Its original approach consists of understanding architecture, first of all, as the construction of possibilities, that is, in its capacity to establish, define or mobilize the foundations of the << world of life >> in force in each case through the production of spaces, temporal records and means of interaction that determine our experience. In this sense, for Schwarte the philosophy of architecture has a fundamental importance to the extent that it helps to trace the genesis of a kind of << fundamental meaning >> that constitutes the common root of forms of life and linguistic orders. This article, the first translation of the German author into Spanish, offers a synthesis of his project for a philosophy of architecture.