The Arcades Project

Synopsis

"to great writers, " walter benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. " conceived in paris in 1927 and still in progress when benjamin fled the occupation in 1940, the arcades project (in german, das passagen-werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater, " as benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas.