The Cohen Davis Residence on Exhibit
And Toby Witte on a Panel
Our Cohen Davis Residence was on full display in an exhibition as part of a symposium, titled House(ing).
Organized by the David R. Ravin School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte, House(ing) took a look at the contemporary single family house as a platform for critical debate and practice.
The Symposium Brief
The symposium’s introduction read as follows:
>> Houses are (and have generally been) the preeminent field for the architectural vanguard to experiment with emerging design sensibilities and aesthetic ideologies. The scale and specificity of the house offers architects a means to not only tailor designs to specific clients and sites, but to test concepts that reflect evolving cultural attitudes and tastes toward the domestic. Where "home" is the accommodation of an essential need with an appeal to the broadest possible audience, "house" questions how we might live in new ways, and how that speculation might appear in the world. <<
Panel Discussion
During the “Practices Panel” Toby Witte and other practitioners who’s work was displayed in the exhibit discussed their projects. Principals from Carolina firms such as Cluck Design Collaborative, in situ, pod architecture + design, Silo, Teltta, and The Raleigh Architecture Company shared their thoughts and ideas behind residential design and formal and structural qualities they explore in their processes.
Speakers
Speakers included Charles Davis and Michaelangelo Sabatino who shared their work on Black Spaces and the Edith Farnsworth House. They discussed how the house shapes our identities and public consciousness.
