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Constructing Domesticity 1945-present
Architecture is often considered to be neutral container that is the product of formal, aesthetic and technical concerns. This seminar encourages students to understand architecture in another manner, that is, as the product of changing social norms and cultural values. Using texts that theorize gender, power, privacy and publicness as a framework to analyze domesticity since 1945, it will consider residential architecture as a vehicle that can enforce accepted roles about men and women as well as one to probe new social practices. Texts by authors including Hannah Arendt, Joan Wallach Scott, Simone deBeauvoir, Sylvia Federici, Henry Urbach, Hilde Heynen will serve as a theoretical framework to examine diverse kinds of domestic architecturs, including collective self-build projects; impermanent residential types, like refugee settlements; and buildings and interiors by important and lesser-known designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Ernst Neufert, Oskar and Zofia Hansen, Mies van der Rohe, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Myra Wahrhaftig and Sarah Wigglesworth among many others.
Class discussions and lectures by invited guests will encourage reflection about contemporary domesticity. Students are expected to participate in class discussions, make an oral presentation and prepare a short, written report. Class discussions and lectures will be in English; Reading materials: English; Written reports: English or German.
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