The Dominguez House: Alejandro de la Sota's investigation of dwelling

摘要

The few discussions of Alejandro de la Sota's Dominguez House that currently exist cite a retrospective text, dated 1976, where he developed activity and repose as two distinct images within human dwelling. While the Dominguez House has previously been understood in relation to biological rhythms,1 this article presents a different reading of this remarkable project - as a deconstruction and reformulation of the contemporary dwelling, one that challenges the inward-looking understanding of human dwelling as shelter. I therefore propose that Alejandro de la Sota was as an architect with a theoretical agenda, far from the conventional view that his was an empirical approach to architecture.