1st Edition
A New Domesticity The changing nature of our experience of the home
During the pandemic, we have all become more aware of our own domestic space and how we live and might like to live. It has caused us to further question the boundaries between public and private, and between house, home and holiday home. The wide use of video calling software has allowed us into the homes of colleagues, public figures, friends and family. While we couldn't venture out to museums and galleries, we have a renewed interest in looking around the home.
This book will question the complex relationship between home and architecture, analysing how we experience our homes and domestic environments. It will critique the established concept of 'home' rather than reaffirming it and look at what 'home' means when technology is changing its very nature.
With illustrated examples and case studies, this book is predominantly a student textbook which will link theories around people's experience of the home.
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Phenomenology and the reading of domestic space
Chapter 2 Changing technology and the home
Chapter 3 A place shared
Chapter 4 Spaces of intimacy: privacy and the home
Chapter 5 Home as exhibition, home as media
Chapter 6 Care and maintenance of the home
Chapter 7 Transient spaces of home
Chapter 8 The Future of the Home
Bibliography
Biography
Laura Mark is an award-winning architecture critic, curator, editor and filmmaker based in London. She is the Keeper of Walmer Yard and runs the Baylight Foundation, where she curates a number of cultural programmes and projects which look at how we experience architecture. Trained as an architect, Laura spent five years in architectural practice before joining the editorial team of the Architects' Journal. She went on to become the magazine's digital editor, where she oversaw a comprehensive redesign of its digital offering. Later she became the magazine's Architecture Editor. During her time at the Architects' Journal, Laura won numerous awards including IBP's Multi-Media Journalist of the Year in both 2015 and 2016. Her writing has featured in magazines including the Architectural Review, Domus, Dezeen, RIBA Journal, Icon *and *The Developer. She also co-leads the first year architecture course at Sheffield School of Architecture and has previously taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the University of Greenwich and Birmingham School of Architecture.
