1. The Table of Egalitarians: Notes on the Architecture of Sophie Delhay
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Rosellini, Anna and Rosellini, Anna
- Abstract
In the transition from the 20th to the 21st century, the family with stable, heteronormed relationships, and founded on women's housework, has lost its status as a model for defining strategies and configurations of domestic living rooms, in Western, European and North American capitalist society. Some architects have reacted to the social changes in domestic life, with the design of new systems of relations between rooms to the point of trespassing into variable devices of freely combinable units, in which people become the protagonists of encounters, participation, appropriation and new agreements, or “protocols”, capable of articulating radical relations between individuals and collectivity, and arriving at a new kind of Habitat. The search for that Habitat, which characterises the most experimentalist studies and realisations of the 21st century, had become a goal of so-called “radical” architecture during the 1960s and 1970s, when the first decisive social revolutions were underway, which, however, due to the conditions of the market and society, were then destined to translate into a conscious act of refusal to build according to the dictates of the profession. Alongside the radical experiences, in the rethinking of domestic space towards the form of the Habitat, the writings of feminist authors such as Melusina Fay Peirce, Maria Mies, Silvia Federici, and essays such as The Grand Domestic Revolution by Dolores Hayden, played a crucial role in the definition of a theory of architecture in which the role of female emancipation in the conception of contemporary space is considered. Delimiting Not Limiting intends to question the transformations of a domestic space that has become Habitat, in the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries, from radical experiences to contemporary realisations, privileging the analysis of the conditions that have led to the birth of a different and alternative female consciousness, whi
- Published
- 2024