Designing in Dark Times

The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton ''never recovered'' from the force of Hannah Arendt''s teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of ''dark times'' (a concept which, drawing from Brecht, she made her own).

Building on the revival of interest in Hannah Arendt, and on the incr...