Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary

Authors
Felipe Correa
Anthony Averbeck
Devin Dobrowolski

Research Assistants
Jonah Coe-Scharf, Steve Martinez, Angel Firmalino, Shovan Shah, Taro Matsuno, Dylan Gibbs

Graphic Design
Neil Donnelly Studio

Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary is a forthcoming book and exhibition analyzing, drawing, and diagramming 60 case studies in collective housing spanning a range of typologies and geographies.

Housing as typology is one of the richest representations of a city’s history and evolution of culture. The gradual collection of dwellings in multiple forms of existence —from individual to collective and from provisional to permanent— makes up the basic building blocks of a city. The space of the dwelling, as a mediator between conditions of exterior and interior, between the public and private realm, is an essential component in the construction of domesticity and urban life.  Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary examines the role of the architect in imagining new spaces for collective housing throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in doing so inventing new ways of inhabiting domestic space.