The Epic of Architecture as Justice: When Stone Becomes a Scale

Architecture is read as a decision about who enters and who stays outside, starting from the balance set in the heavens. Chapters weigh the square, the circle and the straight line, then test justice at the door, the stair and the elevator, in housing as a right, Le Corbusier's vertical city, schools, hospitals, prisons, courthouses and the Palace of Justice in Brussels, and in the single row of the mosque. Squares, parks, water, transport, the sidewalk and shade are claimed as rights, alongside the waqf, the child, the elderly, people with disabilities, women and the workers who never appear in photographs. Near the end a building stands before the court of history, and the book closes by placing architecture itself before God.