The House has gone from being an individual affair to becoming the built element with the greatest impact on the planet. In this Book, Fernanda Canales analyzes the evolution of this space over the last two centuries through projects, exhibitions and books that have transformed the way of living towards a collective understanding of the dwelling.
“Mi casa, tu ciudad” offers a journey through buildings that have tried to solve the whole life in a handful of square meters, challengeging the limits between the public and the private, in a story that reveals the vastness of the universe of the domestic. This book expands the meaning of “house” by dismantling three erroneous assumptions – the house as a place of rest separate from work, the house as an object of private property, and the house as a sanctuary for the nuclear family – in favor of other forms of belonging, coexistence and use.