The Arcades: Every-Day Architecture with Secret Intrigue
By April Nieuwsma • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Featured ArticlesBy April Nieuwsma
Before his mysterious death in 1940, Walter Benjamin- a progressive German philosopher, began a massive volume on a single architectural phenomena: a magnum-opus of aesthetics called the Arcades Project. The book, which I have attempted to finish on several occasions, takes up the fascinating sociological, political, and philosophical themes suggested by the Parisian [...]