Publication: WORKHOUSE 3

WORKHOUSE 3 Latent Futures is the last in the WORKHOUSE Research Studio Essay Series Trilogy. It concludes a three-year study of the grey zone between domestic and workspaces and activities by UCLA students.

Like the other two books, this one addresses a broad scope of issues – it looks into series of new visions implied by co-working and co-living spaces within the historical, social, cultural, and technological paradigm shift. As lifestyles continue to transform, architecture needs to be redefined to accommodate changes in daily life. If the separation of domestic and workspace into discrete zones informed the ethos of modern architecture and urban planning in the 20th century, the 21st century is characterized by the fluidity and flexibility of spaces and lifestyles. Essays in the book examine currently changing patterns of inhibition, the rise of new forms of community, and the reconciliation of domestic and work environments in new typological formats. It also grapples with how future architects can productively address these changes. In a pandemic like the one we are currently facing, the living and working conditions and the relationship between the two becomes ever more pertinent. As future norms are being questioned in a post-COVID-19 reality, architects will be faced with new challenges as the boundaries of spaces and programs take on new meaning.