Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher whose phenomenology of “being-in-the-world” deeply influenced architectural and landscape theory. In Being and Time (1927), he analyzed Dasein—the condition of human existence—as always situated, embodied, and entangled with its environment. Heidegger’s concepts of dwelling, place, and the poetic revealing of being continue to shape design discourses, though his association with National Socialism remains a profound ethical and intellectual controversy. His thinking on ontology and perception informs debates on estrangement, authenticity, and landscape experience.

As we confront the growing ecological crisis, it becomes increasingly difficult to argue that harmonious aesthetics, designed primarily for pleasure and ease, are always the most effective mode of expression. Perhaps there is space to question whether ecological efforts demand a different aesthetic attitude, one less fixated on traditional notions of balance and spatial conformity and more open to dissensus and confrontation.

»Paradigm shift« has been, for at least a decade now, one of the most used phrases in landscape architecture. We use it mainly to address the need to focus on design with natural processes in mind. This is important as it concerns our core values, attitude towards nature, the understanding of natural processes and the […]

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