To be outside allows one a fresh perspective on the inside. In theseessays, philosopher Elizabeth Grosz explores the ways in which two disciplines thatare fundamentally outside each another--architecture and philosophy--can meet in athird space to interact free of their internal constraints. "Outside" also refers tothose whose voices are not usually heard in architectural discourse but who inhabitits space--the destitute, the homeless, the sick, and the dying, as well as womenand minorities.Grosz asks how we can understand space differently in order tostructure and inhabit our living arrangements accordingly. Two themes run throughoutthe book: temporal flow and sexual specificity. Grosz argues that time, change, andemergence, traditionally viewed as outside the concerns of space, must become moreintegral to the processes of design and construction. She also argues againstarchitecture's historical indifference to sexual specificity, asking what theexistence of (at least) two sexes has to do with how we understand and experiencespace. Drawing on the work of such philosophers as Henri Bergson, Roger Caillois, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray, and Jacques Lacan, Grosz raisesabstract but nonformalistic questions about space, inhabitation, and building. Allof the essays propose philosophical experiments to render space and building moremobile and dynamic.