This document discusses the relationship between poetry and dwelling. It references a quote by Heidegger that poetry allows us to think of dwelling and arrives at the nature of dwelling. The document also briefly mentions Marc Antoine Laugier, considered the first modern architectural philosopher, and includes images of buildings designed by Louis Kahn that illustrate centrifugal and centripetal wall concepts.

1. FAT SPACE / FLAT SPACE
osvaldo valdes, lecturer
architecture department
university of california
berkeley 1990

3. POETICALLY MAN DWELLS
...the phrase by following it. "... poetically man dwells .. ." If need be, we can imagine that poets do on
occasion dwell poetically. But how is "man"-and this means every man and all the time-supposed to dwell
poetically? Does not all dwelling remain incompatible with the poetic?But where do we humans get our
information we are to think of what is called man's existence by way of the nature of dwelling; for another,
we are to think of the nature of poetry as a letting-dwell, as a-perhaps even the-distinctive kind of building.
If we search out the nature of poetry according to this viewpoint, then we arrive at the nature of dwelling.
Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter New York: Harper and Row, 1971.

6. Marc Antoine Laugier can perhaps be called the first
modern architectural philosopher.
—John Summerson

9. carved, molded, shapedconstructed or assembled from parts

10. carved, molded, shaped
multiple wall_centrifugal
constructed or assembled from parts
single wall_centripetal

45. National Assembly Building of Bangladesh / Louis Kahn

50. Exeter Academy Library, Exeter NH / Louis Kahn