Schedule
Tue-Thu, 3:15 PM - 5:40 PM (1/20/2026 - 5/5/2026) Location: SLC HEIM 213
Tue-Thu, 3:15 PM - 5:40 PM (1/20/2026 - 5/5/2026) Location: SLC HEIM 209A
Description
The traditional Western house is subdivided into smaller spaces and rooms through social means. Such rooms embody a situated hierarchy set forth by the notion of the “paterfamilias” and “dominus,” or traditional heads of the family. The division of rooms and their functions reiterate this nuclear-family structure, furthering the separation from the outside world and of everyone within the house. This partitioning of space further defines private and public; and the shelter, protection, and safety that the home provides “is inseparable from the immense economic, technological, and political structures that produce it.” Therefore, the house is also intertwined with the “framework of political organization” in its physicality and its imbued implication of “labor, work, and political action.” This course is titled from an extended essay by Virginia Woolf and a Dogma-presented architectural exhibition and corresponding exhibition catalogue on domestic space. Students will research the house