They Asked Me to Design a House, I Asked Them to Design a Home reframes domesticity not as a problem for architects to solve but as a living experience shaped by memory, care, intimacy, and the rituals that accumulate in the spaces we inhabit.
About This Book
Edited by Ilaria Palmieri and Georgina Pantazopoulou, this publication pushes past the architectural object to ask what home actually means — felt rather than drawn, remembered rather than specified. Structured in two correlated parts, Reflections gathers essays and conversations that move across alternating perceptions of domestic life, while Exercises opens participatory space for readers to explore home as a personal, unfolding experience. With twenty-one contributions from architects, interior architects, educators, and practitioners whose work engages care and shared living, the book treats dwelling and belonging as genuinely contested, generative territory. Essential reading for anyone working at the intersection of design, domesticity, and spatial practice.
Key Features
- 320 pages of essays, conversations, and interactive exercises across two thematic sections
- Edited by Ilaria Palmieri and Georgina Pantazopoulou
- Twenty-one contributions from architects, interior architects, educators, and practitioners
- Published by Set Margins, ISBN 9789083532578
What You'll Discover
- How domesticity functions as a living, evolving experience rather than a static architectural condition
- The role of memory, imagination, and everyday ritual in constituting what we understand as home
- How themes of belonging, hospitality, and shared living intersect with spatial and interior design practice
- An interactive exercises section that positions the reader as an active participant in defining their own domestic experience
About the Author
Ilaria Palmieri and Georgina Pantazopoulou edited this volume, bringing together contributors whose practices engage care, intimacy, and everyday domestic rituals. Further biographical details are not provided in the available source material.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- Dimensions: 174 x 241 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789083532578
- Publisher: Set Margins
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, interior architects, and educators rethinking how domesticity, belonging, and shared living are embedded in spatial practice — and for designers who want to move beyond the house as object toward home as experience.