Visiting Karsten Harries and Revisiting his 'Building and the Terror of Time'

Karsten Harries, Howard H Newman Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has written one of the most influential essays reflecting on the relationship between time and architecture, ‘Building and the Terror of Time’ (1982). For Harries, architecture is a means of resisting mortality and coping w...

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Published in:Architectural design 2016-01, Vol.86 (1), p.128-135
Main Author: Franck, Karen A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
A Little Free Library
Architecture
BanG studio
Berlin
Billion Oyster Pavilion
Bruno Taut
Buddhist ideas
Buildings
Construction
Design Studio III/Irwin S Chanin School of Architecture
Edward F Knowles
Fear
Governors Island
Governors Island, New York
Human
Japan
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Langhorne Pavilion
Mortality
Nagano
Nancy Wolf
New York
Onkel Toms Hütte
perennial Platonism
Philosophy
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Prisoner to a Grid
Puerto Rico
Sendai Mediatheque
stadium
Taiwan
terror of time
The Architect's Dream
The Cooper Union
The Ethical Function of Architecture
The Tower of Babel
Thomas Cole
Toyo Ito
Vieques
Vieques, Puerto Rico
Yale University
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Summary:Karsten Harries, Howard H Newman Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has written one of the most influential essays reflecting on the relationship between time and architecture, ‘Building and the Terror of Time’ (1982). For Harries, architecture is a means of resisting mortality and coping with the fear of human transience. In order to reassess those ideas in the current context of this issue, guest‐editor Karen A Franck interviewed Harries in the spring of 2015.
ISSN:0003-8504
1554-2769
DOI:10.1002/ad.2011