A discussion using Juhani Pallasmaa, architect and renowned phenomenology writer,  opened an interesting side to architectural study that I had only touched upon before. For this essay, the topic of "home" was debated, which is interesting as the differing factors between "house" and "home" show more of an emotional relationship with the latter phrase. However I wished to analyse sources passed the physical elements that could "make a house a home", using literary sources such as Fyodor Dostojevsky's Crime and Punishment. The descriptions of the small interior compared to the aesthetic of van der Rohe's Farnsworth House highlights the lack of personalisation in the modernist dwelling - and also provokes the discussion once more in its ill-fitting function as an inhabitable house. Additional works in analysis include: Alvar Aalto, Villa Mairea (1939), Friedrich Kiesler, Endless House (unbuilt), Berthold Lubetkin, Highpoint I (1935) and Edward Hopper, Nighthawks (1942).

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"In Identity, Intimacy and Domicile: notes on the phenomenology of the home, Juhani Pallasmaa writes: ‘In my view, architecture can either tolerate and encourage personalisation or stifle it.’ With reference to careful analysis of well-chosen examples  respond to this claim.", Stage 2 About Architecture: Cities, Cultures and Space