Would God Sell The House?

This project utilises the disjunction of the word ‘house’ away from its interrelation with the word ‘home’. If the house and home dichotomy exist, then this renders the role of architecture to operate in a precarious duality. If the things that we produce and what we talk about concern different parts of architecture, how do we as architects conceptualise this duality? In illustrating an architecture, we currently sit at the point of viewing the bi-products of our work as the disciplinary subject, that this subject or (in Khuns terminology) an active field of research.

With the use of fluid mediums like language and fiction, we can recognise the defaults of our own idiosyncratic architecture and notice an architecture that is not nullified by mechanisms of property; one where the experience of agency and dwelling is the focus of how we shape future housing and the institutions responsible for shaping it. By following an ethic of displacement, may we find that a future where the definitions of property and the architecture responsible for producing it is impermanent, reconfigurable, and where the act of dwelling becomes the work itself. Would God sell the house or would he live in it?