Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers ofmodernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theologyand law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet theproblem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relativelyunderexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture and, if so, howdoes this architecture affect the explicit propositions that he offers us?In what ways are Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architecturalconcerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movementsthat individuals can make within the new spaces of modern cities? How canBenjamin's theses help us to understand the secret architectures of thepresent? This volume takes up the architectural challenge in a number ofinnovative ways, collecting essays by both well-known and emerging scholarson time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves and tombs,the orders of road-signs, childhood experience in modern cities, and muchmore. Engaged, interdisciplinary, bristling with insights, the essays inthis collection will constitute an indispensable supplement to the work ofWalter Benjamin, as well as providing a guide to some of the obscurities ofour own present.