ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the results of a comprehensive reading of Christian Norberg-Schulz's oeuvre referring to both published work and unpublished archival sources. It traces the development of the concept of care in Martin Heidegger's writings, thereby gathering a fertile field of concepts that can be used to question stedskunst. The book explains Norberg-Schulz's approach by systematically questioning the assumptions and interpretations underpinning stedskunst. The route towards livskunst traverses three territories of inquiry: the extent and limits of Norberg-Schulz's theoretical contribution; the cogency of his architectural interpretation of Heidegger's philosophy; and the significance of this divergence. In the marriage of the art of care and the art of place dwells the potential for works of architecture to articulate being-in-the-world, in all its spatial and temporal abundance, as livskunst.
