ABSTRACT
This final chapter speculates ‘An Architecture’ that no longer conjures away the specter of Revolution. This is based on the idea that architecture will remain in the shadow of Revolution in capitalist liberal modernity at the time that no political revolution is on the horizon. The chapter is devoted to the exposition of an ‘Egalitarian Theory of Building’ in which I return to my initial axiom of ‘architecture sans revolution’ to develop its theoretical–philosophical foundation. A theory of architecture that will come out of this, as will be fully explicated, is primarily a ‘Theory of Shelter’, or, a ‘Theory of Building grounded in the Idea of Shelter’ under the notion of ‘egalitarianism’. This theory comes with an ethical imperative. I trace the sources for this ethical foundation in Kant and Hegel.
