Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain

Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Endowed Chair of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University.

Jordana Mendelson, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese , New York University:
“Pushing beyond inherited ideas about Spain’s relationship to modernity and modernization, Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain asks readers to explore in a nuanced and culturally specific way what the home means for personal and collective identities when excavated through the cultural images, government regulations, and popular media of twentieth-century Spain. The essays in this collection – all of which emerged in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic – offer bold, original readings of the domestic and institutional spaces we inhabit, but rarely write about, that are critical to thinking anew about such crucial and, as we have learned, interdependent topics as intimacy and confinement.”

Juan Calatrava, Full Professor of Architectural History, University of Granada:
“In this brilliant collective work, the effective editing work of Susan Larson offers us sixteen contributions that constitute an interdisciplinary research about the relationships between architecture, domestic space, and comfort and about the representation of this problem in contemporary Spanish cinema. It is a fundamental book not only for its essential contribution to the knowledge of architecture and cinema of contemporary Spain, but also for its status as a methodological model for the study of the relationships between architecture and other areas of contemporary culture.”