Dwelling, the nameless quality and architecture: meditation on a way of being in a world that is losing its essential
Javier Hernández Alpízar
Published 2025-03-28
Keywords
- Phenomenology,
- Dwelling,
- Nameless Quality,
- Architecture
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Abstract
Dwelling is a way of being of human beings, a way of living and behaving towards the other and the others, that is, the nature and the other human beings. This way of being has been ordered by a certain wisdom of living, an architectural one, that essentially governed our way of dwelling, living, cultivating, building, caring for our natural and built environment in search of a good life. The erosion, weakening and loss of such wisdom are causing a crisis of living that is reflected in a lack of architectural and, therefore, in the absence of a true architecture, which pursues what the architect Christopher Alexander called the “Nameless Quality".
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