Dogma's Pier Vittorio Aureli's lecture on Housing

How can housing be reformulated in an age when the live/work distinction is increasingly blurred? Brussels-based architecture firm Dogma proposes new models for live/work housing, challenging traditional designs and transforming underlying economic frameworks. In their housing projects, they articulate relations between solitude and communal interaction and develop alternative socio-economic structures.

Dogma was founded in 2002 by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara. Dogma has worked on the relationship between architecture and the city by focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects. Parallel to the design projects, the members of Dogma have intensely engaged with teaching, writing, and research, activities that have been an integral part of the office’s engagement with architecture.

Pier Vittorio Aureli studied at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He teaches at the AA School of Architecture in London and is visiting professor at Yale University. Aureli is the author of many essays and books, including The Project of Autonomy (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008), The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (MIT Press, 2011) and (together with Maria Shéhérazade Giudici) Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space (AA Publications, 2016).