We live in an era of rationality.Our relationship with nature is measured in CO2 emissions, our connection to danger is scientific, our search for love is algorithmic and our design is, largely, industrial. We have lost our romantic spirit. Romanticism is the primacy of sentiment over reason. It emerged in the 18th century, a movement on a quest for exoticism. It is the revival of a landscape somewhere between melancholy and temptation, freedom and desire. As architects, we might ask ourselves what a romantic vision of our interiors may be today.I propose a response in the form of scenographies for our living space, exploring the aesthetic translations of our uses of the home.
