Ideological Assumptions of the Current House: Space as a Vehicle of the Modern Daylight

Abstract

This text analyzes the doctrine underlying the so-called Modern Movement (MM) of Architecture and its influence on the determination of contemporary spatial forms, particularly at the level of housing. Its development is seen as the result of two apparently distant objectives: the social project that materializes the modern emancipatory presuppositions through space; and the disciplinary project aimed at strengthening the expert power of architecture in the context of a technical and scientifically specialized society. These two objectives are achieved through the construction of a paradigm of functional and symbolic regulation of the various components of the space system; the understanding of contemporary spaces cannot therefore omit this paradigm, which is prone to an enormous diversity of readings by the various actors involved in the construction of the urban space.