ENVIRONMENTS OF RESISTANCE
FOR SOCIAL INDIVIDUALS
a project by
Fosbury Architecture
ENVIRONMENTS OF RESISTANCE FOR German surnames) was invented
to be a representative of the
IV of those constant aspects of our
individual and social memory.”
SOCIAL INDIVIDUALS middle bourgeoisie without
particular interests except those
Today, just like two hundred
years ago, recession and growing
And finally, here is the main
difference between the former
of preserving his private life and social control are leading to and the latter: “Once a need or a
domestic intimacy. A sort of aurea frustration in political structures. desire is satisfied, the respective
mediocritas, intended to re- The resulting fear of the speed of artifact or space that served it
establish, in the habits of life and life, the impotence towards global begins to undergo a process of
I personal and personalized home hallmarks everywhere you go: a aspirations, in the simplicity of dynamics, and the progressive stylization. The artifacts, spaces,
environment. A mass hallucination, profusion of symbols of comfort objects and forms, a balance based loss of our privacy due to the and ceremonies of the private
The most common piece of a powerful instrument of control and quality, at least to a certain on rationality and on the positive digitalization of the world once domain can thus be seen, on the
furniture is the Billy from IKEA. capable of crossing the domestic connoisseurial mindset. Minimalist consideration of what society could again lead to a tactical withdrawal. one hand, as directly determined
It is estimated that one is sold threshold and undermining furniture. Craft beer and avocado afford in a moment of economic Sheltered between our 4 solid by physiological needs (for
every 10 seconds. We often take the radical ambition of the toast. Reclaimed wood. Industrial contraction. shrinking walls (in Great Britain example, food), but, on the other
it for granted that furniture, as democratization of creativity, lighting. Cortados. Fast internet. the average home is now just 925 hand, they can be seen as icons
much as painting, sculpture, and reabsorbing it into a boring game Changing places can be as painless From 1815 to 1848, between square feet, barely half the size whose symbolic contents are, in
architecture, reveals the spirit of combinatorics. as reloading a website. You might the Congress of Vienna and the it was a century ago ), if indeed part, intrinsic to them and, in part,
of an era; we even tend to argue not even realize you’re not where revolutionary upheavals that shook fortunate enough to own a house, culturally assigned as layers of
that observing how an individual II you started.” the whole of Europe, at the dawn of we discover that the day-to-day semantic change.”
furnishes their own space, for the the Second Industrial Revolution, routine has been cut to the bone,
individual in question, that their In the current condition of the The company that, better than the first and genuine taste born and most activities can be carried Hard to die, from the Middle
character can be identified. So it commodification of everything, the anyone else, has been able to and fed by the bourgeois class was out elsewhere, or even in the Ages to present days, the
sounds at the very least strange border between public and private exploit this panorama is Airbnb. the dominant one. Biedermeier ether. Given a bathroom, a bed, Environments of Resistance for
that a global and irreversible dissolves until it disintegrates. The apartments listed on the furniture soon invaded Europe and and a computer, the home is now Social Individuals are exceptional
publishing crisis is happening While the home is becoming more website, as if we were in a never- prevailed thanks to the large-scale the place to meet friends (Skype), items designed with the sole
in parallel to such a frenetic and more a place for work and ending IKEA showroom, all look commercialization, the reduction to flirt with one’s girlfriend or purpose of accommodating the
purchasing of bookcases. an instrument of subsistence, alike. In bright and retouched of production costs, the diffusion boyfriend (Facebook), to go to idiosyncrasies of their occupants.
domesticity invades every field of wide-angle photos, everyone seeks of affordable easily exportable the movies (Netflix), to have sex Halfway between an object and
Since 2012, the IKEA catalogue has human activity, with banks that are to convey a message of warm models, and the invention of (Youporn, provided that someone a room, their forms are inspired
become, surpassing the Bible, the camouflaged as lounges, offices as domestic uniqueness, combining product catalogues that helped still uses it), and to relax if by architecture. They trigger,
most widely distributed publication game rooms, and restaurants as inexpensive wood furniture with customers choose and order. possible. preserve, and perpetuate rituals.
in the world. Created by 250 kitchens. The work/consume/die personal items that help to win The term that better expresses They have a tectonic value and
specialists and translated into 29 human agenda is shifting towards over potential clients. It is a given the atmosphere of this era is What are dissolving today are not just a descriptive or elegiac
languages, more than 200 million an endless and sneaky productive that goods today serve to sell Gemütlichkeit, yet another German certainly not the objects, which one. They contain and do not
copies are distributed each year. It leisure. Social media has put otium oneself more than to tell a story word to describe a place or a state still enjoy excellent health, support. They are anthropometric
would be limiting to think that the to work 24/7, and the sharing about oneself; to feel at home of warmth and friendship and good what we are witnessing is and not zoomorphic. They are
seductive IKEA catalogue is merely economy, if on the one hand has anywhere is possible, after all, humor, comfort, peace of mind, a the dematerialization of the monumental and not atmospheric.
able to capture the taste of the completely distorted the housing and it is almost certain that the sense of belonging, wellness, and domestic liturgy linked to them. They are bulky and not market-
times; it is easier to imagine that market, on the other has converted host and the guest have their social acceptance. This transition is perfectly friendly. Spaces like the alcove, the
it plays an active role in shaping intimacy into an economic asset. homes furnished in the same way. highlighted by Emilio Ambasz in studiolo, the boudoir, the pregadio
it, fooling us with glossy images of Hence, one can effectively belong We are not interested here in the catalogue of Italy: The New and later the conversation pit,
loving parents who smile at their The home-sharing platforms have anywhere. listing all the positive aspects of Domestic Landscape, where a clear the deprivation tank, the game
children, blooming cacti, colorful produced and broadcasted an the period in discussion; the aim is distinction emerges between the pod, and the peep show cabin
bath mats, scented candles, and unprecedented physical space, III to highlight how the need for social Object and its counterpart: the activate a relationship between
improbable lampshades. a comfortable, comprehensible, inclusion, in fact, contributes Environment. The Object “can be life and form that is not fulfilled
homogeneous, and generic This contemporary human retreat to an unprecedented flattening stripped of its mystique only if it in mere functional terms, but that
Distributed through formidable geography that allows us to towards an ubiquitous and of taste. The sense of bourgeois is tamed, if it is made to assume challenges life to survive under
marketing efforts, amplified by a travel from New York to Bali, reassuring domestic environment modesty not only influenced the the role of house pet. Reduced abnormal conditions, without any
pervasive internet presence, the with a stopover in London and calls to mind a very similar aristocratic lifestyle but also to graspable size, the object no ambition to change the habits of
low-price and easy-to-assemble Singapore, frictionless. This sterile historical moment, both from a became an achievable ambition longer intimidates us.” Quite anyone other than perhaps those
Zeitgeist penetrates so deeply global landscape is defined by political and a socio-economic for the less well-to-do classes. It the contrary, the Environment is who commissioned them. They do
into the collective consciousness the American freelance journalist point of view: the Biedermeier is at that precise moment that an “adaptable enough to permit the not respond to necessity, they deal
as to create the illusion that by Kyle Chayka as AirSpace: “It’s period. The term (a combination inexorable erosion of domestic enactment of different private and with desires.
combining a finite set of objects, the realm of coffee shops, bars, of the adjective bieder, which rituals, particular to the customs communally imagined new events,
each individual will be able to startup offices, and co-live/ means simple, honest, and and traditions of each social class, but at the same time sufficiently
produce his or her own very work spaces that share the same Meier, one of the most common began. fixed to permit the reenactment
AirSpace was shown within the exhibition
‘Het Kabinet’,
Leeuwarden, Holland, February 2017
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2. TENT ROOM, CHARLOTTENHOF PALACE Karl Friedrich Schinkel_Germany_1830 73. RUSSIAN PECHKA Anon.
3. LA QUÊTE DU SAINT GRAAL ET LA MORT D’ARTHUS Anon._France_1500 74. BEDROOM Olivier Mourgue_1970
4. LE NID Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott_Romania_1897 75. SUPER CUBE Les Walter_1967
5. VISIONA 1_NIGHT-CELL (BED) Joe Colombo_Germany_1969 76. BEDROOM Gae Aulenti_Italy_1979
6. VISIONA 1_NIGHT-CELL (BATH) Joe Colombo_Germany_1969 77. LIBRARY STUDY Philip Johnson_USA_1980
7. THE ORANGE CUBE Jacob + MacFarlane_France_2011 78. THE BIRTH OF ST. ROCHE Johann Ulrich Kraus_Germany_1485
8. PROJECT OF A BEDROOM Patriz Huber_Germany_1898 79. VICTIMS John Hejduk_Germany_1989
9. BOUDOIR MALMAISON DI GIUSEPPINA BEAUHARNAIS Charles Percier_France_1801 80. COFFERED BED Italy_1500
10. PREDELLA OF SAN MARCO ALTARPIECE Beato Angelico_Italy_1443 81. TOKONOMA Anon._Japan_1300
11. BOUDOIR D’UNE GRANDE VEDETTE Josef Hoffmann_France_1937 82. MOORE HOUSE Charles Moore_USA_1966
12. ZANDRA RHODES’ PINK PALACE Zandra Rhodes_1978 83. MAUSOLEO Ettore Sottsass_Sweden_1969
13. THE SCARABEO SOTTO LA FOGLIA HOUSE Nanda Vigo e Gio Ponti_Italy_1969 84. DESERT PAVILLON Arata Isozaki_USA_2003
14. ALCOVE OF FEDERICO DA MONTEFELTRO Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini_Italy_1460 85. ACANTO Studio 65_Italy_1971
15. SCENE OF A BATHHOUSE Maestro di Antoine de Bourgogne_Germany_1470 86. PROUVÉ’S 6X6 DEMOUNTABLE HOUSE UPDATE Richard Rogers_France_2015
16. TOILET T MATIC Marco Zanuso_Italy_1983 87. ITALY, THE NEW DOMESTIC LANDSCAPE Gae Aulenti_USA_1972
17. COMPETITION FOR THE HOUSE OF A CONNOISSEUR Leopold Bauer_1901 88. LITTLE GIRLS’S BEDROOM Otto Struck_Germania_1908
18. STUDIOLO OF CATERINA DE’ MEDICI Anon._France_1520 89. TOTAL FURNISHING UNIT Joe Colombo_USA_1972
19. SAFARI SEATING ENVIRONMENT Archizoom_Italy_1966 90. MAN CAVE ROOM Anon
20. FRONTISPIECE OF FACTA ET DICTA MEMORABILIA LIBRO IX Guillaume Vrelant_France_1470 91. TUNISIAN BEDROOM Anon._Tunisia_1953
21. VILLA MULLER Adolf Loos_Czech Republic_1930 92. PORTABLE BED Daniela Puppa_1984
22. VISIONA 3 Olivier Mourgue_Germany_1972 93. SAINT JEROME IN HIS STUDY Domenico Ghirlandaio_Italy_1449
23. MEDITATION ROOM “THINK TANK” William L. Pulgram_USA_1972 94. ADDITIONAL SYSTEM Joe Colombo_Italy_1967
24. LA MAISON DE LA CELLE-SAINT-CLOUD Jean-Pierre Raynaud_France_1974 95. BUTSUDAN BUDDISTA Anon._Japan
25. LETTO ATTREZZATO Corsini e Wiskermann_Italy_1966 96. STOOL CLOSET Karl Friedrich Schinkel_Germany_1830
26. MODEL 700 LA BARCA SOFA Piero De Martini_Italy_1975 97. BEDROOM Joe Colombo_1969
27. VILLA VALGUARNERA Tommaso Maria Napoli_Italy_1712 98. STAGING OF TORINO ‘71FAIR Anon._Italy_1971
28. BUBBLE HOUSE RENOVATION, MAISON BERNARD Odile Decq_France_2014 99. FIBERGLASS ROCK-SHAPED BATH Hans Hollein_1980
29. BUBBLE HOUSE Antti Lovag_France_1976 100. HOUSE OF SALLUST Anon._Italy_20 d.C.
30. LICHTBED 51N4E_Belgium_2005 101. PORTRAIT OF DOMINICANS Tommaso di Modena_Italy_1352
31. PAPPEDER 26 3h design_Germany_1971 102. PARTE NOTTURNA DI UN’ABITAZIONE BBPR_Italy_1936
32. THE PLAYROOM Paul Pfeiffer_USA_2012 103. RUCELLAI SEPULCHRE Leon Battista Alberti_Italy_1467
33. FRENCH BEDROOM Anon._UK_1690 104. VILLA MULLER Adolf Loos_Czech Republic_1930
34. RUMBLE SOFA Giovanni Pettena_Italy_1967 105. SAINT JEROME IN HIS STUDY Antonello da Messina_UK_1475
35. CANOPY BED Joseph Hoffmann_1900 106. THE AURORA ROOM Thomas Hope_UK_1802
36. MINIATURE IN FACTA ET DICTA MEMORABILIA Jean Gros_France_1480 107. HOX75 Ikebe Laboratory_1967
37. GERMAN BROTHEL Patric Fouad_2004 108. INTERIOR Gerard Grandval_1972
38. TACUINUM SANITATIS (CODEX VINDOBONENSIS, SERIES NOVA 2644) Ibn Butlan_1400 109. EMERGENCY UNIT Marco Zanuso_1972
39. CONVERSATION PIT Anon._1970 110. QUEEN’S BEDCHAMBER Pietro Pieffetti_Italia_1730
40. BOUDOIR POUR L’HOTEL D’UN COLLECTIONNEUR Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann_France_1925 111. TURN ON URBAN SUSHI Alles Wird Gut_Austria_2002
41. CABRIOLET BED Joe Colombo_Italy_1969 112. LA FABRICA Ricardo Bofill_Spain_1975
42. IL GUSCIO Mario Botta_Italy_1985 113. GIANT TOY BLOCKS Studio 65_1975
43. CHOIR OF THE TORRECHIARA CASTLE Anon._Italy_1460 114. IGLOETTE PER TECNISTALL Claudio Malfitano_1975
44. CANOPY BED Peter Flotner_Germany_1540 115. BEDROOM Jean Phillipe Glezes_1983
45. VISIONA 2 Verner Panton_Germany_2012 116. LA CASA PARA TRABAJAR Piero Derossi_1983
46. NOUVEAU DESSEIN D’UNE CHAMBRE A COUCHER Jean Francois Blondel_USA_1710 117. BOUDOIR Heinz Tesar_1987
47. TAWARAYA Masanori Umeda_Italy_1981 118. PALCOSCENICO PER CREDENZE - TEATRINI Ugo La Pietra_1989
48. CHINESE ALCOVE Anon._Cina_1750 119. CELLULE N.1 Absalon_Germania_1991
49. KLEEBLATT Verner Panton_1971 120. CANOPY BED André Jacob Roubo_UK_1769
50. SUMMER BED IN TWO COMPARTMENTS Thomas Sheraton_1794 121. CONVERSATION PIT Anon._1970
51. UN APPARTEMENT MODULABLE Olivier Mourgue_France_1972 122. CONVERSATION PIT Anon._1970
52. LES JOURS MEILLEURS Jean Prouvé_France_1956 123. HOT TUB LIVING ROOM Anon._1970
53. RANALLI STUDIO APARTMENT George Ranalli_USA_1974 124. IRORI Anon._Japan
54. DIJSSELHOF KAMER Woonhuis Van Hoorn_Netherlands_1892 125. STUDIOLO OF FRANCESCO I Giorgio Vasari_Italy_1572
55. ETERNIT Hans Hollein_Austria_1969 126. FLYING CHAIRS Verner Panton_1963
56. LINA LOSS BEDROOM Adolf Loos_Austria_1903 127. MULTIFUNCTIONAL LIVING UNIT Verner Panton_1966
57. PISTE DE SKATE Ill Studio_France_2011 128. STAGING Alberto Rosselli
58. DEVALLE HOUSE Carlo Mollino_Italy_1939 129. STAGING OF TORINO ‘71FAIR Anon._Italy_1971
59. GAZEBO Archizoom_1968 130. RUBBER COATED BATHROOM Terence Conran_1976
60. BEDROOM, NEUSCHWANSTEIN CASTLE Peter Herwelien_Germany_1869 131. ASMARA Bernard Govin_1966
61. HUGH HEFNER’S PLAYBOY TOWNHOUSE Chrisalys architects_USA_1960 132. HOUSE IN A PLUM GROVE Kazuyo Sejima_Japan_2000
62. ALCHEMIST’S LABORATORY Hans Vredeman de Vries_Germany_1595 133. HUMANOIDS Ernesto Neto_Sweden_2001
63. TSUKE-SHOIN Anon._Japan_1200 134. STUDIOLO OF FEDERICO DA MONTEFELTRO Giuliano da Maiano_Italy_1476
64. DESIGN FOR A STATE BED George Smith_1808 135. ROGER DEAN HOUSE Roger Dean_1990
65. ALTANA OF PALAZZO PUCCI Gae Aulenti_Italy_1971 136. DYMAXION BATHROOM Buckminster Fuller_USA_1936
66. PREDELLA OF THE MIRACLE OF THE DESECRATED HOST Paolo Uccello_Italy_1467 137. SUPERONDA Archizoom_Italy_1966
67. ROTOR HOUSE Luigi Colani_2002 138. BEDCHAMBER OF THE GRAND DUKE OF HESSE Joseph Olbrich_Germany_1906
68. ABITACOLO Bruno Munari_Italy_1971 139. SANGOLOLO Haldane Martin_2007
69. GUEST ROOM Ken Isaacs_1974 140. STORIES OF SAINT NICHOLAS Paolo Veneziano_Italy_1346
70. BEDROOM Emmanuelle e Quasar Khanh_1970
71. APPARITION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO SAINT AUGUSTINE Filippo Lippi_Italia_1438
