5/31/2023 0 Comments The human condition 1958![]() ![]() After his studies, in 2003 he was invited to join the “Meesterproef,” a young-talent program of the Dutch and Flemish state architects. Hans Teerds (b.1976, Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands) studied architecture and urban design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. ![]() In her 1958 book The Human Condition Arendt sets out a relationship between the world-of-things, and the realm of politics, which Teerds will investigate this relationship between world and politics, which offers a perspective upon architectural design as a form of political thinking. Arendt’s term thus stresses the way we build houses and cities, infrastructures, institutions, as well as how we furnish spaces with tables, chairs, paintings and photographs. Architecture, we might state, is a specific form of spatial thinking: at once concerned about specific spaces and places, but within the framework of ‘the world and its inhabitants.’ For Arendt, the term ‘world’ has a very specific meaning: it encompasses the interventions in the earth, the globe, to make it habitable. It is political, not because it is concerned about a specific space nor place, but since it is concerned about the world and its inhabitants. Spatial thinking is political thinking, the German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) once wrote. Join us on zoom (link below) for a seminar with Hans Teerds ![]()
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