My House, Your City: Privacy in a Shared World by Fernanda Canales traces two centuries of housing evolution through projects, exhibitions, and books that have collectively challenged where private life ends and public life begins.
About This Book
The domestic sphere is no longer a private matter. In My House, Your City, Mexican architect Fernanda Canales dismantles three foundational assumptions that have long shaped housing: the home as a refuge from work, as an object of private property, and as a container for the nuclear family. Working across projects, exhibitions, and critical texts, Canales maps a different lineage — one in which housing is understood as a collective project, a site of coexistence rather than enclosure. For architects, urbanists, and housing researchers, this is a lucid and well-evidenced argument for why the question of how we live together is among the most consequential in contemporary design.
Key Features
- 176 pages of analytical text examining housing history through projects, exhibitions, and critical writing
- Published by Perimeter Editions
What You'll Discover
- How housing has shifted from an individual concern to the built typology with the greatest planetary impact
- A critical history of works that have tested the boundaries between public and private space within domestic architecture
- The three erroneous assumptions — home as rest, as property, as nuclear family sanctuary — that have constrained housing imagination, and the alternative models that challenge them
- How a handful of square metres has been the site of radical experimentation in collective inhabitation across the last two centuries
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 21 x 27 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783753306971
- Publisher: Perimeter Editions
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and urbanists working on housing typologies, academics and students in architecture and urban studies, and anyone interrogating the politics of domestic space and collective living.