In Volume, architecture is not conceived simply as a work of art, subject to the imperatives of representation and expression that aesthetics would have it respect, nor as a monumental guardian of memory, nor as a model of pure rational construction. This book extracts philosophical and political reappropriations from architecture, which describe the irreducible experience of the space to which it leads us, with no possible retreat. Because space shares our existence—subjective or collective—in such a way that it is never totally ours or totally foreign. The architectural work is never an object. Furthermore, it will examine how, since the Greeks, architecture could be considered a metaphor for political power, and why, in 1930s Germany, a modern tyrant could be identified with an authoritarian and voluntaristic figure of the architect.