The threat of the domestic

Abstract

This article explores the disquieting in the domestic architecture as an anti-natural aesthetic-psychological phenomenon, which contradicts the essence of the domesticated and quotidian. Among different taboo images from the collective unconscious these considerations focus on the injury/dissection of the (architectural) body as catalyst of the uneasy in the context of the privacy. The paradigmatic reference to be researched is Gordon Matta-Clark and his architectural actions which recall these images. This author will be also linked with some notions developed by the researcher Anthony Vidler. The article consists of a selection of one chapter of the doctorate thesis of the author which is currently in construction.