ABSTRACT
As mentioned in Chapter 1, Agamben rarely talked architecturally or of architecture in his writing. However, to use Andrew Benjamin’s words, the relationship between philosophy and architecture is both already developed and yet to be solved. This indeterminacy fits well with Agamben’s research. Agamben uses some architectural examples but mostly as metaphors, explanatory concepts or paradigms in his archaeological research. On the other hand, the disciplines of architecture, planning and urban design have been frequently inspired to ‘use’ Agamben’s conceptual apparatuses to illustrate spatial exclusionary principles and exception topologies, in order to elucidate some specific geographies or issues affecting the urban realm.
