ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with stating that the most distinctive mark of the architecture in this time of Restoration, that I have characterized as reactive nihilism, is the abdication of human reason. In Kantian terms, it means the total abandonment of architectonic reason. In its totality, as I develop in this chapter, the contemporary architecture and its discourse is built on the ruins of architectonics. As I show, before being a ‘metaphor’ of architecture in the discourse of philosophy, the term ‘architectonic’ describes a nexus, a term of articulation, between the two fields. It is a term of articulation between the faculty of architecture and the faculty of philosophy. In line with the transcendental structure in Kant’s critical philosophy, I designate architectonic as the condition of the possibility of architecture that will restore to it a secure foundation by a unity of knowledge.
