Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively underexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture and, if so, how does this architecture affect the explicit propositions that he offers us? In what ways are Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architectural concerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movements that individuals can make within the new spaces of modern cities? How can Benjamin's theses help us to understand the secret architectures of the present? This volume takes up the architectural challenge in a number of innovative ways, collecting essays by both well-known and emerging scholars on time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves and tombs, the orders of road-signs, childhood experience in modern cities, and much more. Engaged, interdisciplinary, bristling with insights, the essays in this collection will constitute an indispensable supplement to the work of Walter Benjamin, as well as providing a guide to some of the obscurities of our own present.

沃尔特-本雅明被公认为现代性的关键思想家之一：他关于政治、语言、文学、媒体、神学和法律的著作对当代思想有着不可估量的影响。然而，本雅明作品中的建筑问题和为本雅明而写的建筑问题仍然没有得到充分的研究。本雅明的项目是否有一个架构，如果有，这个架构是如何影响他为我们提供的明确命题的？从主要城市中心的重建到个人在现代城市新空间中的运动，本雅明的著作在哪些方面集中体现了建筑方面的关注？本雅明的论述如何能帮助我们理解当下的秘密建筑？本卷以多种创新方式迎接建筑挑战，收集了知名学者和新兴学者的文章，内容涉及电影中的时间、媚俗的问题、坟墓和墓穴的设计、路标的秩序、现代城市中的童年经历等等。这本集子中的文章具有参与性、跨学科、充满洞察力，将构成对瓦尔特-本雅明作品的不可或缺的补充，同时也为我们自己的当下的一些模糊之处提供指导。