A topology of everyday constellations

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A topology of everyday constellations

Statement of responsibility

Georges Teyssot

Creator

• Teyssot, Georges, 1946-

Subject

• Haus
• Privatsphäre
• Raum
• Space (Architecture)
• Space (Architecture)
• Spatial behavior
• Spatial behavior
• Öffentlichkeit
• Architekturtheorie

Language

eng

Summary

Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, the local and the global. The house is not merely a home but a position for negotiations with multiple spheres -- the technological as well as the physical and the psychological. In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges Teyssot considers the intrusion of the public sphere into private space, and the blurring of notions of interior, privacy, and intimacy in our societies. He proposes that we rethink design in terms of a new definition of the practices of everyday life. Teyssot considers the door, the window, the mirror, and the screen as thresholds or interstitial spaces that divide the world in two: the outside and the inside. Thresholds, he suggests, work both as markers of boundaries and as bridges to the exterior. The stark choice between boundary and bridge creates a middle space, an in-between that holds the possibility of exchanges and encounters. If the threshold no longer separates public from private, and if we can no longer think of the house as a bastion of privacy, Teyssot asks, does the body still inhabit the house -- or does the house, evolving into a series of microdevices, inhabit the body?

Member of

• Writing architecture

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

NA2765

LC item number

.T49 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Writing architecture