“Benjamin's Flu” in the Architectural Theory Review
© Elisabeth Hauptmann Archiv, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
How has Covid prompted us to rethink intellectual work in architecture?
Walter Benjamin suffered from the Spanish Flu, but he never wrote about this global pandemic. There are three possible reasons for this oblivion, and several consequences for architecture’s relationship with the current virus dominating our thoughts and activities.
“Benjamin’s Flu” is Professor van Gerrewey’s contribution to the open-acess Covid collection from Taylor & Francis and Sydney University in Architectural Theory Review.