ABSTRACT
Andrew Benjamin’s statement is, in its first part, one with which many would agree; the relation between architecture and philosophy has a long history. But what if we not only explore the more tentative, second part of his assertion-that somehow philosophy and architecture are present within each other-and simultaneously rethink philosophy away from the academic or metaphysical practice divorced from daily life, and toward one that, as Henri Lefebvre has consistently argued, is or should be embedded in the everyday?3 What happens to the architect and to architecture when critical thinking is rethought as a quotidian procedure, and when appropriations of space, the space of the body, and representations as lived experiences are brought to bear on consciously designed construction as manifestations of philosophy-as-everyday-practice? The exploration here treats the activity of skateboarding for precisely these considerations, using, in particular, Lefebvre’s considerations of space and the everyday as levers to open out meanings and possibilities.
