ABSTRACT
Architecture has the task to frame and design the prerequisites for saving (private) places “from the world,” in such a manner that its result does not facilitate secluded spaces only. To determine privacy in this context is to determine privacy in its context of space and time, i.e., to proceed from “privacy to privacies.” Consequence is that one's personality is not the only entity that has to be protected; it is the personality and/or identity within its context, in this his/her dwelling. In a hybrid world, identity is influenced by the shifting relation between man and environment, including present objects. What Karel Teige's and/or similar projects distinguish from today's is the fact that now digital technologies offer him/her the possibility to actively decide and participate; i.e., “decide” about his/her own identity and its – spatial – “transparency”.
