Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
The house is more than a place: the 'domus' is the principle of an order and a device for articulating differences and meanings one lives by. In many cultures domesticity - centrality, stability, continuity - is identified with woman. Yet, linking femininity and domesticity or house can only be reductive when one presupposes that the meaning of the house is simple - nothing more than 'place' and 'centre'. In this article I argue, mainly on the basis of seventeenth century Dutch interior paintings, that the pre-modern experience of the space of the house includes the awareness of 'counterforces' to the hearth-making. The female figure is as ambiguous as the house is, and incorporates as well that counter-force and openness that can save one from the suffocating house.
The house is more than a place: the 'domus' is the principle of an order and a device for articulating differences and meanings one lives by. In many cultures domesticity - centrality, stability, continuity - is identified with woman. Yet, linking femininity and domesticity or house can only be reductive when one presupposes that the meaning of the house is simple - nothing more than 'place' and 'centre'. In this article I argue, mainly on the basis of seventeenth century Dutch interior paintings, that the pre-modern experience of the space of the house includes the awareness of 'counterforces' to the hearth-making. The female figure is as ambiguous as the house is, and incorporates as well that counter-force and openness that can save one from the suffocating house.
The meanings of domesticity
Verschaffel, Bart (Autor:in)
The Journal of Architecture ; 7 ; 287-296
01.01.2002
10 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
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