Inhabit and Violence Politics: Considerations on Memorials

Abstract

The aim of this article is to link the different interpretations of the vital and aesthetical experience of dwelling and inhabiting. The goal is to critique the idea of “dwelling” in the architectural guild by looking at the concept of “experience”, as defined by Schiller
in Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794), and Heidegger’s proposal in Dwelling, Building, Thinking (1951), and Being and Time (1927). The objective of this investigation is to reveal the meaning of “dwelling”, reflect on how this has become the end goal in architectural practice, and present how it has been questioned in the current process of design and materialization of memorials.