ABSTRACT
This present chapter offers sets of reflections on the principal philosophical presuppositions that underpin some of the fundamental theoretical meditations on the intercultural roles of architecture. This line of inquiry rests on several investigations that I conducted elsewhere in various publications (El-Bizri 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004a, 2004b, 2004c, 2005, 2006, 2007a, 2007b, 2008a, 2008b, 2010) which evoked the multifarious salient interconnections that the question concerning the cultural role of architecture and its humanistic groundings sustains in relation to ontology (as an inquiry about being qua being), epistemology (as a theory of knowledge and logic), and the variegated theories of value (ethics, aesthetics, politics).
