Truth, dwelling, preserving: Heidegger and architecture

Abstract

This article analyzes the peculiar understanding of the notion of truth that Heidegger develops in close connection with the problem of dwelling and preserving. The hypothesis that serves as a starting point is that space, understood as “gathering”, allows us to clarify the link between these notions and the conception of “being” as Geviert that is at the basis of the late Heideggerian approach. The paper concludes by offering an alternative interpretation of the relationship between truth and preserving, beyond a trivial ecologism.