Architectures of Existence: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform  the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects,  designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a  society.

In Art et existence,  Maldiney states: "For us, to inhabit is to exist". This book aims to  unfold, extend, articulate and thicken this postulate by interweaving  architecture, city, landscape, literature and philosophy. It takes up  the synergistic lines of long-term research carried out from an  ecosophical perspective. Such an attitude explores an art of existing in  multiplicity, singularity and openness, manifesting the critical  dimension through a reinterpretation of the knotting of the trajectories  of time, humanity and its becoming. Insisting on what is between things  and beings as well as on what is happening, regenerating, recycling,  reviving, saving, diversifying, sparing, recreating, meditating: and so  caring. These are all eco-rhythms of a different type between human and  non-human, to consider ourselves in the world. In an era of uncertainty  and climate threats, this book develops the margins of possibility  offered by the subject of architecture.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, urban planning and philosophy.