The Room of One's Own is Dogma's history of the private room—an investigation into how the enclosed, individual room came to be, and what it tells us about privacy, domestic life and the way people have been defined as subjects.
About This Book
For Dogma, the Brussels practice of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, the room is not a neutral container but the product of particular historical circumstances. The book follows the processes of subdivision that produced enclosed domestic space, and the habits and customs that underpin today's idea of privacy—an idea that took hold in the home only relatively recently.
It is structured in three parts: a critical introduction to the idea of the room, a chronological atlas of floor plans of exemplary rooms from the Epipaleolithic period to the present, and a sequence of 48 perspectival drawings of historically significant rooms. The project was developed for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Key Features
- A critical introduction to the room as a historical construct
- A chronological atlas of room plans from the Epipaleolithic period to the present
- 48 perspectival drawings of historically significant rooms
- Developed for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial
What You'll Discover
- How the subdivision of domestic space produced the private room
- The relationship between architecture, privacy and social custom
- How room layouts have encoded differences of gender and class
- Why the possibility of being alone is a condition of living together
About the Author
Dogma is a Brussels-based architecture studio founded by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara in 2002. Alongside built and unbuilt projects, the practice runs a sustained research program on the city, the ground and collective forms of living, published as a series of large-format studies. Aureli is also one of the most influential architectural theorists of his generation, the author of The Project of Autonomy and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 297 × 297 mm
- Pages: 131
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788894030662
- Publisher: Black Square
Perfect For: Architects, students and readers interested in domestic space, privacy and architectural drawing.