2024-11-05T20:55:10-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/36350743/alien-immigrant-refugee-the-architecture-of-hospitality Places Journal 2012-01-30T18:52:00-05:00 >2012-01-30T19:32:51-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5l/5lv7b7hjni6sllf8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Passage across a border wrenches us from a space of citizenship &mdash; where our individual being is cloaked in layers of legal protection &mdash; to a space where we experience at once freedom and nothingness. As architects and planners, we lack the language for describing this shift in the perception and socio-political dimension of place; for distinguishing between the place of the citizen and the place of the stranger within the space of the state.</p></em><br /><br /><p> In an essay on Places titled "Hospitality Begins at Home," architect and Pratt Institute professor Deborah Gans explores the spatial and political dimensions of being a stranger, particularly an immigrant or refugee. She reviews Maya Zack's Living Room exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York and the In-House Festival at the Jerusalem Season of Culture.</p>