Living and Working by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara mounts a direct architectural argument against the ideology of domesticity — the deeply embedded cultural assumption that separates the home from productive labour.
About This Book
The division between home and work is not a natural condition — it is an ideological one. This book takes that premise seriously, combining historical research with original architectural proposals to challenge the domestic ideal of the home as private sanctuary. Less monograph than treatise, it positions the house as a site of potential collective organisation, where labour might be socialised beyond the nuclear family and inhabitants freed from both the burden of domestic work and the logic of property ownership. For architects and theorists concerned with housing, domesticity, and the politics of everyday space, it is one of the more structurally rigorous arguments in recent architectural publishing.
Key Features
- 320 pages of historical research, architectural proposals, and lavish illustration
- By Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
- Published by Random House, MIT Press (ISBN 9780262543514)
What You'll Discover
- A critical history of domesticity as ideology — how the separation of living and working became culturally naturalised
- Architectural proposals that reimagine the home as a cooperative structure rather than a unit of private consumption
- An analysis of domestic labour as a political condition that architecture has the capacity to either reinforce or contest
- How design thinking can respond to the growing reality of working from home without simply accommodating existing power structures
About the Author
Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and theorist whose work consistently addresses the political dimensions of architectural form. He is joined here by Martino Tattara as co-author. Further biographical details are available upon request.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- Dimensions: 28.3 x 23.8 x 3.1 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780262543514
- Publisher: Random House
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, housing researchers, and theorists interested in the politics of domesticity, the design of collective living, and architectural responses to the conditions of contemporary labour.