Vaults, Grottoes, Arches and Polychromy
Antonino Cardillo
Long ago, I read in Martin Heidegger’s Letter on Humanism the following phrase: “In thinking, the Being reaches language. Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home”. This phrase was referring to the architectural topics of ‘living’, ‘house’ and ‘language’. According to Heidegger, language thus seemed to be a research into the origin of meaning of words. […]
