Loveless: The Minimum Dwelling and Its Discontents is Dogma's typological history of the minimum dwelling, told through 50 studies ranging from monasteries to residential hotels and kitchenless apartments.
About This Book
Few housing types are as contradictory as the minimum dwelling. Across its history it has stood for luxury and poverty, freedom and oppression, solidarity and solitude, emancipation and exploitation. Dogma, the Brussels practice of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, trace these tensions through a sequence of 50 case studies.
The book takes its cue from the Czech critic Karel Teige, whose 1932 study of the minimum dwelling argued for collective housing and the socialisation of domestic labour as alternatives to the private family home. Dogma extend that line of thought into the present.
Key Features
- 50 studies of minimum dwelling types, from monastic cells to kitchenless apartments
- Traces a type that has stood for both luxury and poverty, freedom and oppression
- A critical text building on Karel Teige's theory of collective housing
- Large square format suited to comparative plan analysis
What You'll Discover
- How the minimum dwelling has served both emancipatory and exploitative ends
- The history of collective alternatives to the private family house
- How domestic labour has been designed into, and out of, the home
- What the minimum dwelling can offer current debates on housing
About the Author
Dogma is a Brussels-based architecture studio founded by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara in 2002. Alongside built and unbuilt projects, the practice runs a sustained research program on the city, the ground and collective forms of living, published as a series of large-format studies. Aureli is also one of the most influential architectural theorists of his generation, the author of The Project of Autonomy and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 290 × 290 mm
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788894030679
- Publisher: Black Square
Perfect For: Architects, housing researchers and anyone following debates on collective living and the future of the home.