ABSTRACT
Within recent architectural theory architecture as ‘dwelling’ has become something of a dominant paradigm amid calls for a regionalist architecture and celebration of the concept of genius loci.1 This is an approach which emanates from the work of the German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and which has been pursued by those who have developed his thought-architectural theorists such as Christian Norberg-Schulz and philosophers such as Gianni Vattimo.2 Many have looked to an architecture of ‘dwelling’ as a means of combatting the alienation of contemporary society and of resisting the homogenising placelessness of International Style architecture.
