"Heidegger trusted human beings more than the proponents of Modernism did. To him we human types are manifest, warts and all; we revel in untidiness. Dwelling is not about living in a house; for us dwelling is a verb and the centre of everything we do. To dwell is not static - it is on the move and even when it stops its journey it is rarely still. It is there before we journey and there when we arrive, it is not place-specific. A good home is where we make it, it is where we lie."
dwelling |ˈdweliNG|(also dwelling place )noun (formal)a house, apartment, or other place of residence
DERIVATIVESdweller noun [ in combination ] : city-dwellers
ORIGINOld English dwellan ‘lead astray, hinder, delay’ (in Middle English‘tarry, remain in a place’)of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch dwellen‘stun, perplex’ and Old Norse dvelja ‘delay, tarry, stay.’
Sources:
Dwelling & Architecture - From Heidegger to Koolhaas, Pavlos Lefas, 2009, Berlin
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