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commitment,andfreedomastheultimateaimand
responsibilityofhumanexistence.
Suchconcernscouldhardlyhavefailedtoresonate
withasociallyandculturallyengagedPolisharchitecture
studentlivinginParisinthelate1940s.OskarHansen
hadjoinedthe
ArmiaKrajowa
[HomeArmy]duringthe
war,hiscountry’smajorantifascistresistance
movement.4In1948hereceivedaFrenchgovernment
scholarshiptopursuestudiesinParis.Tomyknowledge
henevermentionsSartreinhiswritingsorinterviews,
anditisnotmyintentheretosuggestanydirect
influence.Yettheoverarchingprojectto“reconquerman
withinMarxism”wasinthe
airdutemps
.Although
Hansen’stheoryofOpenFormdidnotcometofruition
untilafterthediktatofsocialistrealismwasliftedinlate
1956,ithaditsgerminationintheimmediatepostwar
periodandintheintellectualandaestheticcrosscurrents
flowingbetweenPolandandParis.Itpartookofaview
of“man”asasubjectwhoisnotmerelyacog
inasystem,butanindividualwhoactivelyparticipates
inthemakingofhisownhistory.
Notjustinthemakingofhisownhistory,though,
butinthemakingofhisownphysicalenvironment:
HansenalsosharedwithSartreafundamentalbelief
intheprimacyoflivedspace.Forboththephilosopher
andarchitect,thepossibilityofhumanfreedomandself-
determinationisintrinsicallyboundupwiththeopenness
andavailabilityofthespatial-temporalfieldinwhichone
issituated.In“Questionsdeméthode,”Sartreinsiststhat
Marxistanalysismustgobeyonditsclassic
preoccupationswithclassinterestsandrelations
ofproductiontoconcernitselfwiththeactualsiteswhere
humanconsciousnessisshaped:“themilieuofourlife,
withitsinstitutions,itsmonuments,itsinstruments,its
cultural‘infinites’[…],itsfetishes,itssocialtemporality
andits‘hodological’space,”hewrites,“this
also
must
bemadetheobjectofourstudy.”
Sartreinvokesthenotionofhodologicalspace
onmultipleoccasionsinhiswritingsofthe1940sand50s.
