How poets build houses

Abstract

This paper is about the siting of domestic buildings and a possible future sensitivity to site. Two interrelated ways of considering the site are introduced—a poetic way and an ontological way. In a future dominated by issues of ecological crisis, the paper discusses a number of philosophical considerations for the siting of buildings, including environmental issues, cybernetic issues, and issues to do with transience and permanency.

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Martin Harrison

*Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia. Email: [email protected]