A Politics of SpaceWhat is the value of architecture? Why should we care about the design of our environment? As long as it works, its good enough, right? In this essay, Hans Teerds, Professor at the Academy in Amsterdam, argues the opposite. The built and the unbuilt environment require close attention. The architecture of our environment forms a collective domain according to the philosopher Hannah Arendt. It determines how we live, work, move, and thus meet or avoid