urban living

Different Habitats Logics

height rehearsal

“In the generic case of housing, or collective housing in particular, it is necessary to rethink a host of approaches inherited from modern manualism on the conception of the subject, often still focused on a primitive and dogmatized functionalist reductionism. The modern idea that survives in many academic workshops presupposes the existence of a type of subject, individual or family, fully subject to a convention, the convention of custom, or perhaps worse, the convention of morality. We understand that it is essential to build an ideology of questions that reveal the contemporary condition of living in a relation with the domestic: What will contemporary housing be like after the extinction of the modern "typical family"?

How Do We Live Together? - Cristian Nánzer