Dwelling and Architecture: From Heidegger to Koolhaas explores the influence of Martin Heidegger's concept of dwelling (Wohnen) in disputing major imperatives of modern architecture. It is a book on both the history of architecture and the history of ideas. Focused on the substantial differences of the philosopher's first-person approach to Le Corbusier's positivism, it goes on to draw on the views of the 'Other Modern'. Of Heidegger's ideas, it pinpoints those that appealed to architects who questioned the post-war modern architecture's record............