[They] make possible all other values of life or all other arts . . . Architecture is their spatial, philosophy their spiritual home.” Andrew
Benjamin, who has written extensively on architecture and European continental philosophical traditions, proposed 40 years later to “think the particularity of the architectural” and devise a uniquely “architectural philosophy” (vii). Reading between the lines of
Branko Mitrovic´’s book Philosophy for
Architects, one suspects that uncertainties attributed to architecture’s ill-defined canon may partly arise when such far-reaching claims are directed towards a complex conceptual terrain, where philosophers (including analytical philosophers and their continental rivals) and architectural theorists seem to be working at cross-purposes.