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But where do we humans get our information
about the nature of dwelling and poetry? Where does man generally get the claim
to arrive at the nature of something? Man can make such a claim only where he
receives it. He receives it from the telling of language.5
Man
is capable of such building only if he already builds in the sense of the
poetic taking of measure. Authentic building occurs so far as there are poets,
such poets as take the measure for architecture, the structure of dwelling.7
By
way of a contribution towards this poetic background to the practice of
architecture, Heidegger himself provided some intriguing insights in his
earlier essay on the nature of dwelling. He describes the primordial character
of human Being in terms of its location on the surface of the earth, which he
develops into a notion called the “four-fold”, which provides the background to
the act of building. This four-way structure results from the way a building
inhabits the interface of earth and sky – the implication of being on the earth
is that of also being under the sky – while the second two terms cover
divinities and mortals, which are more obscure and less clearly developed.
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