Finley, Dawn2019-05-162019-05-162019-052019-03-26May 2019Schuermann, Samantha. "The Living Room." (2019) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105388">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105388</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105388This thesis is a re-evaluation of the status of the contemporary living room through a critical analysis of type, an embrace of stereotype, and the presentation of a prototype that uses the domestic image as it’s site of inquiry. While the project presents a living room prototype as a culmination of research and analysis, and finds the living room an especially rich domestic type for investigation, the thesis itself is a methodology. The ambition is that this methodology for re-evaluation, could be applied to re-read other domestic types. Rather than a singular, one size fits all prototype as a design solution, the project advocates for this methodology as a tool to re-read domestic types.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Living RoomDomesticityArchitectureInteriorThesis2019-05-16