ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Martin Heidegger's well-known lecture dating back in 1951. Heidegger emphasizes the need to think beyond the realm of not only providing a physical structure but also to consciously consider the impact a house will have when reduced to just a protective framework. A wide variety of architects/artists has envisioned and designed the results of a fundamental rethinking of the society and (built) environment; many were sooner or later dismissed as being utopian, as unlivable. In today's times, people often seem to search for identity, for meaning, and for a sense of belonging; i.e., some prerequisites for dwelling. Searching for one's identity in a hybrid world and an environment in constant change, thus, also implies the confrontation with and conscious “search” for the unexpected and the unfamiliar, with the accompanying precondition that they take back control and autonomy over what constitutes and guides this search as well as its findings.
