Starting from Annie Vrychea’s archive, Professor in the School of Architecture of the National Technical University (NTU) of Athens, who together with other prominent feminist Greek scholars researched the relationship of gender and space, while initiating the relevant module in her department in 1991 after huge efforts. Her archive is now being housed in NTU, where my residency took place, and has been in a cataloguing process for the last couple of years. I more specifically looked into her work on the intermediary/ in-transition spaces that women created in the refugee settlement in Thebes, Greece, to communicate during their everyday lives while performing their unrecognized, invisible domestic work. Annie’s archive was a great inspiration for looking further into domestic design, the isolated household and how this affected women’s lives. Designs from Dolores Hayden’s books could be found in Annie’s archive presenting experimental communities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which provide us a good insight to the benefits and limitations they faced, and that can in turn inform our new projects/experiments. The outcome of the research is an article based on archival and bibliographical research examining the role of architecture in the (in)ability to implement the feminist call of family abolition. Because as Hayden herself says “as contemporary feminist groups begin to investigate housing reform, evaluating the work of earlier activists becomes a political, as well as historical task.