Goethe's Architectonic Bildung and Buildings in Classical Weimar

In the penultimate section of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant presents the term "architectonic" as follows: "By an architectonic I understand the art of systems."' Architectonic unity, he explains, is characterized by rational necessity and is distinguished from technical unity, or those general structures produced through aggregation or empirical accumulation. In the rhapsodies of accumulation, history can be gathered up and reshaped, refigured and re-presented in a necessary and systematic form: