They Asked Me to Design a House is a collaborative exploration that invites us to pause and reconsider what truly shapes the spaces we inhabit. Rooted in the belief that domesticity is not a static setting for everyday life but a living and evolving experience, the book expands from the scope of the architectural lens. It invites us to pause and consider home as more than just architecture.
By reintroducing home as something felt, remembered, imagined, and continuously made, this publication tackles the issues of dwelling, belonging and shared living with architects, interior architects, educators, designers, and practitioners whose work touches on care, intimacy, and everyday rituals.
The book is divided into two correlated parts, Reflections and Exercises, and brings together twenty-one contributes including essays, conversations and interactive exercises. While Reflections invites you on a journey through alternating perceptions and experiences of domestic life, Exercises opens a space to explore home yourself: not just as a concept, but as a personal, unfolding experience.
Edited by Ilaria Palmieri and Georgina Pantazopoulou (Common Ground Practice)
Set Margins', 320pp, 17cm x 24cm, illustrated paperback, 2025
