" If we think of the verb to dwell in a wide and essential sense, then it denotes the way in which humans fulfill their wandering from birth to death on earth under the sky. Everywhere the wandering remains the essence of dwelling, as the staying between earth and sky, between birth and death, between joy and pain, between work and world. If we call this multifarious between the world, then the world is the house, which is inhabited by the mortals. The single houses, however, the villages, the cities, are works of architecture, which in and around themselves gather the multifarious between. The buildings bring the earth as inhabited landscape close to man and at the same time place the nearness of neighboorly dwelling under the expanse of the sky."

Martin Hidegger '57

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