Elephant in the Room: The Radical Transformation of Domestic Spatial Typologies

Harvard GSD

This seminar is preoccupied with what fell by the wayside of a specific historical narrative – the professionalization of the role of the architect. While there is general agreement that professionalization has constituted a historical narrowing of the role of the architect, there is a lack of discourse on what was eschewed. Elephant in the Room seeks to be attuned to these silences in the historical record that progressively narrowed the role of the architect over time.When professions…