| Concept | Meaning | |---------|---------| | | Not just living somewhere, but a way of being on earth – caring for things, preserving spaces, being mortal. | | Building (Bauen) | Originally meant to dwell . Ancient German buan = to remain, to stay. Building is a response to dwelling. | | The Fourfold (Das Geviert) | Earth, sky, divinities, mortals. A thing (like a bridge or a house) gathers these four into a unified place. | | Place vs. Space | Space is abstract; a place emerges when dwelling lets the fourfold belong together. | | The Bridge Example | A bridge does not just connect two banks – it creates the banks as riverbanks. It gathers the fourfold. |