ABSTRACT
General dwellings and workplaces are realized under increasing economical pressure mainly controlled by the construction industry and often they are experienced as pragmatic structures rather than appealing architectural spaces. However, particularly in ‘everyday architecture’ there is a need to conceive structural elements, i.e. walls, façades, windows etc. as spatial gestures. This challenge calls for a redefinition of the architectural task and responsibility within this context, and it is our hypothesis that the notion of tectonics holds a unique potential in this matter having the capacity of being a spatial theory of construction. Consequently, we ask if ‘everyday architecture’ can be qualified by means of tectonic method? To answer this question entails a clarification of concepts that is pursued through a rereading of Henri Lefebvre’s essay ‘The everyday and everydayness’. As a result the paper outlines a conceptual and strategic link between the notion of ‘everyday architecture’ and practices of ‘tectonics’ method.
