With 'Ways of Life,' 19 Architects Reimagine What It Means to Live and Work in Nature

2017-06-21T12:30:00-04:00

According to research from 2015, between 35-38% of people do some, if not all, work from home. And, even back in 2009, a study found that 1 in 5 spent two to ten hours working from bed. In short, the way we work and live is changing, as many ditch (or have to ditch) the commuter express for their bedrooms. While Walter Benjamin said of the 19th century, “for the private citizen, for the first time the living-space became distinguished from the place of work,” in the 21st, that distinction is blurring once more. Alongside this, the split between the urban, as loci of labor, and the rural or suburban, as retreat, is complicated.

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With 'Ways of Life,' 19 Architects Reimagine What It Means to Live and Work in Nature