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Five principles for a vulnerable and intimate architecture: Drawing alternative boundaries and apertures to home and self

No. 31 (2021-09-01)
  • Maya Orzechowska
    Ryerson University, Canadá morzechowska@ryerson.ca
https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq31.2021.04

Abstract

The boundaries and apertures of home are not separate from but play an active role in a politics of body and social body health. As both the idea of home and housing fail increasing numbers of people, this thesis seeks alternatives to home’s narrative of utopic internal intimacy that endorses retreat and a relationship of non-responsibility vis-à-vis the public realm. It suggests the result is dystopic in its concealment and exacerbation of vulnerability and its resistance to change. Instead, a vulnerable and intimate architecture centers the vulnerable body, by drawing the uncanny, repressed and emotional in home.

Keywords: home, boundaries, empathy, disparity, utopia, Levittown, psychoanalysis

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