House and Home: Habits and Habitation

3 units

House and Home are broad categories of thought that have multiple meanings. The words encompass not only terms of building, belonging, and place, but also terms of order, action, and affection. The house has also been the site of conception and invention for the architectural projects of many significant modern master architects. In many contemporary practices, house and home have retained many ideas of these masters. However, many practices have simultaneously probed new meanings that investigate the relationship between habits and habitation with investigations of gender, sexuality, and political order. This course fulfills the History/Theory elective requirement.