ABSTRACT
Following the reflections emerging from Agamben’s works, this chapter wishes to offer a cursory reading of how several engagements between architecture, planning and urban design are ‘taking place’ (avere luogo). For Agamben, the taking place (of language) is marked by a “passage from the mere glyph of the letter to the embodiment of an idea through the act of speech” (Doussan, 2013: 6). Such avere luogo is an enunciation that happens beyond demonstrating any material object.
