Room is an independent student publication out of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Each issue of the annual digest explores a different distinguishable room and challenges its boundaries and demarcations, both material and immaterial.
For its inaugural issue, Room will be exploring the Bathroom. 2017 marks the passing of one century since Duchamp’s Fountain was first showcased. The piece’s now-cliché status belies the fact that in the century since its exhibition, the space of the bathroom—along with its associated paraphernalia—has retained the stigma as that which is auxiliary or subordinate to rooms of greater significance.
