ABSTRACT
This chapter is essentially concerned with providing an overview of the current position on the everyday that pertains to the world of architecture. It aims at preparing the ground for a new approach, that is to study the everyday through the medium of film with a view to provide not only architects, planners, designers, practitioners, but also politicians and decision-makers with a new awareness of the everyday. The chapter suggests concentrating on how spaces are being used and practised by cinema, the daily use of our everyday spaces, but with an emphasis on the home, houses and dwellings in general. It also traces the evolution of the notion of everyday life and noted that from the end of the 1990s onwards, the study of the everyday has shifted towards an interest in everyday architecture and everyday environment – as opposed to everyday life – boosted by the resurgence in housing, and with which the everyday is most strongly associated.
