Dweel and shock. The phenomenology of home and the autobiographical architecture

• Main Author: Rocío Abellán
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Alicante 2018-12-01
• Series: Feminismo/s
• Subjects: feminismo; sostenibilidad; memoria; arquitectura; casa
• Online Access: https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2018-n32-habitar-y-extranar-la-fenomenologia-del-hogar-y-la-arquitectura-autobiografica

The house is one of the most recurrent subjects and with the most resonance in the art of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, both in its aesthetic and phenomenological aspect. According to this reality, this paper aims to analyze the genealogy of domestic architecture, from a feminine point of view, to demonstrate the transformation of the house and its corollaries in a political and cathartic space-weapon. Throughout a sociological, analytical and gender critical approach, this research will broach the domestic architecture as a political and ontological structure. Thus, the works of the analyzed artists in this research will open the representational paradigms to new strategies of figuration, related to domestic construction. These strategies will be capable of atomizing the house as a purely architectural space, to conceive it as a strictly emotional space.