No one suspected that the least extraordinary of architectures—the house, our home—would so quickly change its meaning. While this box, burdened by mortgages and rooms, has traditionally served as the most immediate human habitat and our daily point of departure, the dizzying changes it has undergone in recent times have endowed it with new and profound existential dimensions.
"What can the house and its rooms teach us?" In the face of every global tremor and every minor social shift, the house allows us to hear the murmur of time like a true seismograph. As a "great repository" where the technical or cultural remnants of every era are eventually abandoned, the house still fulfills its duty. When the house struggles to be the center from which to reconstruct intimacy and daily life, any virulent cataclysm reveals that its capacity for refuge, however forgotten, remains intact. Thus, our identity as subjects resides within the everyday house.
Contents
Prologue
The Birth of the Everyday
The Modern Fraud
The Intimate Room
The Habitual Wall
Thinking in the Corner
Floors and Ceilings Look at Each Other
The Everyday Ornament
The Door as Glue
The Other Gaze
A Subtle Hope
Bibliography
Image Credits
Notes
