Lecture date: 1994-02-23
On Home as a domestic space and as the articulation of fundamental fantasies of space, memory and identity. The conference examines how the category Home works as a point of political reference and mobilisation, and considers the dangers of over investment in this category, both at the level of the city and in terms of fuelling political conflict.
Jeff Kipnis traces the assault on the phenomenology of home orchestrated by architecture through the notion of the ‘house’, concentrating on the deviant registers that specific residences exhibit in their relationship to glass (Robert Smithson’s Hardwick Hall; Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House; Philip Johnson’s Glass House; OMA’s Villa Dall’ava).
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