My objective with this new work is to return to the origins of the suburban house on the Italian peninsula and to build a new history moving forward. The investigation will begin with a study of various key moments in the history of domestic architecture both within Rome and across the Agro Romano. Through a drawing based analysis that mixes direct observation with the analysis of earlier architectural representations, I aim to identify a set of inflection points in which new paths of development—both organizational and formal—can be pursued that prioritize interaction over isolation, collectivity over privacy. In the end, the work will take the form of a book, modeled on historical pattern books—a popular form of architectural discourse and self-promotion in eighteenth-century England and nineteenth-century America—that both proposes new forms of dwelling and describes other possible ways of living. Often, the stories that we tell as architects are as important as the things that we make.