There is a long history of scholars finding in architecture tools for thinking, whether this is the relationship between nature and culture in Simmel's ruins, industrial capitalism in Benjamin's Parisian arcades, or the rhythms of the primordial in Heidegger's Black Forest farmhouse. But what does it mean to take seriously the concepts and dispositions articulated by architects themselves? How might processes of designing and making constitute particular forms of thinking? This article considers the words and buildings of Lahore-based architect Kamil Khan Mumtaz (b. 1939) as an entry point into such questions. It outlines how professional architecture in Pakistan has grappled with the unsettled status of the past in a country forged out of two partitions (1947 and 1971). Mumtaz's work and thought—engaging questions of tradition, authority, craft and the sacred—demonstrates how these predicaments have been productive for conceptualizing time, labor and the nature of dwelling in a postcolonial world.

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建筑、居住、死亡：巴基斯坦的建筑和历史

无论是齐美尔废墟中的自然与文化的关系，本雅明巴黎拱廊中的工业资本主义，还是海德格尔黑森林农舍中的原始节奏，学者们在建筑中寻找思考工具的历史由来已久。但是，认真对待建筑师自己表达的概念和倾向意味着什么？设计和制作过程如何构成特定的思维形式？本文将拉合尔建筑师 Kamil Khan Mumtaz（生于 1939 年）的文字和建筑视为此类问题的切入点。它概述了巴基斯坦的专业建筑如何应对一个由两个分区（1947 年和 1971 年）组成的国家过去的不稳定状态。Mumtaz 的工作和思想——涉及传统问题，