In Search of the new Eden. From Le Corbusier’s Boîte to Sejima’s Curtain

Pérez-Herreras, Javier (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille established the relationship between an old man and a new world that arrived. This old self found in the interior of a long rectangle a domestic Eden that was once lost. The exterior was still a place for waiting, a place to be seen, writes Beatriz Colomina. But this modern Eden could not last forever: his indoor paradise had to move. In 1999 Terence Riley inaugurated at the Museum of Modern Art of New York the Un-private House. In it, he discovers a new dweller that does not occupy the interior of that domestic laboratory, but its own limits. Contemporary man is a social being, Jose Pardo asserts. His public self is moved to a liminal threshold, writes Victor Turner, that Kazuyo Sejima turns into the new house. Architecture is no longer the air volume contained within its limits, but that which prowls said limits. The new domestic home of contemporaneity becomes a porosity line: a curtain that publicizes domestic life. The house is converted into a habitat of borders, where man discovers his new domestic Eden.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.15274/TPJ.2023.08.01.5

Año: 2023

Publicado en: Plan Journal 8, 1 (2023), 115-132
ISSN: 2531-7644

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 0.8 - Architecture (Q2) - Urban Studies (Q3)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.124 - Architecture (Q3) - Urban Studies (Q4)

Tipo y forma: Artículo (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Proyectos Arquitectónicos (Dpto. Arquitectura)