Domesticity and Monumentality:

Reconsidering the Peranakan House

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The exchange across a building’s porous envelope makes us vulnerable. One’s presence may be betrayed by a discarded orange peel, a bit of smoke, the sound of a toilet flushing or a pipe banging as water passes through. We are revealed through these traces, the things that architecture cannot keep, the separation that it cannot provide, its secretions, the excess that leaks through like light.