Lecture2-On Domestic Space

09/14/10
Lecturer: Caroline Constant

The familiarity of dwelling obscures our ability to discern the origins and purposes inherent in the forms of domestics space and their hidden power relations.

The lecture mainly focused on reinterpreting housing plans to unpack and disclose the relation between architecture and different social, cultural and political contexts where it was designed.
Plan as the primary document type in architecture is a good record which allows us to track how domestic space was developed and designed by looking at spatial relation between rooms, access and etc. The social status of different occupants and power relationships (relation to the owner), gender distinction and changing life styles are explicitly or implicitly reflected in architectural plans.