ARC3714H S
Instructor: Carol Moukheiber
Meeting Section: L0101
Monday, 9:00 - 12:00pm

"There is surely another kind of architecture that would seek to give full play to the things that have been so carefully masked by its anti-type; an architecture arising out of the deep fascination that draws people towards others; an architecture that recognizes passion, carnality, and sociality. The matrix of connected rooms might well be an integral feature of such buildings."
- Robin Evans

This course will look at the reemergence and interest in collective and alternative forms of living as driven by contemporary economic pressures, shifting demographics and the need to build social capital. Through the careful graphic analysis of seminal housing experiments drawn across cultures -- historical and contemporary -- we will extract typological manifestations and mutations that recognize and embody sociality. Taking a line of flight from Robin Evans’s Figures, Doors and Passages, morphological transformations will be understood spatially and in relation to the domesticities they encourage, from early multifamily houses, to socialist and modernist experiments, to current co-living and technologically enabled sharing. The course will explore a broad spectrum of issues related to domesticity and housing including affordability, privacy, work/live patterns, changing demographics, interiority and pleasure.

The first part of the course will be comprised of lectures by the instructor and readings with class discussions setting the framework for the research and graphic analysis. The latter part will consist of student led presentations and working sessions on chosen case studies. Various modes of representation will be explored in an attempt to analyze both the formal as well as the socio-political implications embodied within the case studies. A manual of promiscuous space to be collectively assembled.