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The Domestic Architecturalization of Television and Televised Space

Abstract

As architecture becomes television, television becomes architecture. Televised spaces become extensions of residential spaces, creating windows into other realities. At the same time, spaces of these other realities are presented as flattened images. Using perspectives ranging from the social to the architectonic, this article argues that the television and the spaces it depicts are vital parts of our domestic architecture. Television has adopted spatial aspects and profoundly transformed domestic environments. The way in which we interact with television, and the type of content it depicts, greatly impacts the architectural implications of its presence. This article also examines changing methods of television consumption in the context of this relationship.

The televised image and television itself are both aspects of domestic architecture, and they shape our ideas of domesticity. Regarding them as important elements of domestic architecture would benefit architectural discourse and help to contextualize the effects they have had on the design of homes, as well as the idea of “home.”