Negotiable: An Exploration of Spatial Transience

Architectural program is often an expression of conventional lifestyles formed by ideals of the past. In 1921 Rudolph Schindler questioned the programmatic conventions surrounding individuality, marriage, and the relationship of interior and exterior in the house that he designed and built for himself, his wife, and another married couple. The house was a social experiment, designed for the mores of the counterculture and progressive social behaviors of the time. This thesis will challenge the notion of conventional patterns of domesticity. It is an experiment which considers social typologies that reflect the relationship of the individual to the communal, and the constant negotiation of space between them, alongside the making and unmaking of designations between interior and exterior spaces.