ABSTRACT
Architecture reflects, shapes, and enriches society and its culture. At the same time, it seems increasingly incapable to be influential in determining ‘the course of things in space’ (Eisinger 2008). At the most, it can be considered as ‘a singular way of thinking about anything’, being ‘a diagram of everything’ (Koolhaas & McGetrick, in: Eisinger 2008). It is exactly in this encompassing and indecisive way of ‘being in the world’ that architecture ‘manifests itself as an instrument for exploring the world’ (Eisinger 2008). Latour values architecture as a unique practical and visualizing tool that political language does not have (Ghosn et al. 2008). In its “singular way of thinking about anything”, architecture – as a tool and an instrument – provides a unique lens which “preserves a view of the total” (Eisinger 2008).
