ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the home as an idea transformed from the individual's experience and cognition into a meaningful production of space. It looks at the production of home as a set of practices and rituals that shape its spatial organisation. Home as an idea and practice, hence, seems diminished in today's architectural discourse, while the house and household have become more relevant. The chapter focuses on the meaning of home as an everyday practice and investigate it in both western as well as Arabic. However, the contemporary literature of domestic architecture alienates itself by use of three basic terminologies: home, house and household. The household refers to occupants of this physical space, whether humans, goods, objects and furniture. The interrelationship between the house and the household, the mechanism of daily practices, power relations and material cultures seem to be recognised only in the more inclusive term home.
