Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

by Miller Lane; Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780415346559
• ISBN10: 041534655X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

These essays on the history of domestic architecture collectively introduce scholars and students to the wide range of issues, approaches, interpretations and source materials available in this growing field of interest, while also giving the practising architect a historical grounding in dwelling design and suggesting directions for future research.An innovative blend of contributions from traditional sources in history, philosophy and archaeology as well as fresh perspectives from, among others, oral history, gender studies and social sciences, this book encompasses an unprecedented chronological range and depth, and places domesticity in architectural and art history analysis in its wider intellectual context.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
Acknowledgements	xii
1 Introduction	1
PART I Methods and interpretations	19
2 Who interprets? The historian, the architect, the anthropologist, the archaeologist, the user?	21
Nikolaus Pevsner, An outline of European architecture	21
Frank Lloyd Wright, Building the new house	23
Amos Rapoport, The nature and definition of the field	26
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, The world their household	32
Tony Earley, The hallway	40
3 What is home?	50
Martin Heidegger, Building, dwelling, thinking	50
Reviler Banham, A home is not a house	54
Mary Douglas, The idea of a home: a kind of space	61
bell hooks, homeplace: a site of resistance	68
4 Domestic spaces as perceptual, commemorative, and performative	74
Gaston Bachelard, The oneiric house	74
Yi-Fu Tuan, Architectural space and awareness	77
Beatriz Colomina, The split wall: domestic voyeurism	81
Sue Bridwell Beckham, The American front porch: women's liminal space	86
Adina Loeb, Excavation and reconstruction: an oral archaeology of the deLemos home	94
PART II Themes in modern domestic architecture	103
5 Living downtown: nineteenth-century urban dwelling	105
Elizabeth Collins Cromley, Alone together: a history of New York's early apartments	105
Elizabeth Blackmar, The social meanings of housing, 1800-1840	108
Paul Groth, YMCAs and other organization boarding houses	113
Donald J. Olsen, Inside the dwelling: the Viennese Wohnung	117
Sharon Marcus, Seeing through Paris, 1820-1848	120
M.J. Daunton, Public place and private space: the Victorian city and the working-class household	128
Émile Zola, L'Assommoir	133
6 Victorian domesticity: ideals and realities	149
Mike Hepworth, Privacy, security and respectability: the ideal Victorian home	150
Robert Kerr, The gentleman's house (or, how to plan English residences)	155
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, The world their household	163
Susan Sidlauskas, Degas and the sexuality of the Interior	178
7 Rural memories and desires: the farm, the suburb, the wilderness retreat	196
Andrew Jackson Downing, What a farm-house should be	196
Willliam Barksdale Maynard, Thoreau's house at Walden	199
Barbara Miller Lane, The home as a work of art: Finland and Sweden	211
Harvey Kaiser, Great Camps of the Adirondacks	221
Thomas C. Hubka, Pattern in building and farming	225
Mike Hepworth, Homes and gardens: the rural idyll	228
Dawni Freeman, Home and work: the use of space in a Nebraska farmhouse	231
8 Modernism, technology and utopian hopes for mass housing	237
Walter Gropius, Program for the founding of a general housing-construction company following artistically uniform principles	237
Gilbert Herbert, The dream of the factory-made house: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann	240
Susan R. Henderson, A revolution in the woman's sphere: Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt Kitchen	248
Barbara Miller Lane, Modern architecture and politics in Germany, 1918-1945	259
9 Mass housing as single-family dwelling: the post-war American suburb	272
John Keats, The crack in the picture window	272
Curtis Miner, Picture window paradise	280
David Smiley, Making the modified modern	285
Georges Teyssot, The American lawn: surface of everyday life	297
Sandy Isenstadt, The rise and fall of the picture window	298
10 Participatory planning and design: initiatives in self-help housing, renovation, and interior decoration	310
John Turner, Squatter settlement: an architecture that works	310
Alison Ravetz with Richard Turkington, Self-help housing	314
Peter Davey, S.T.E.R.N. work	319
Mats Egelius, The Byker wall	323
Alice Gray Read, Making a home in a Philadelphia neighborhood	326
Carolyn M. Goldstein, Do it yourself home improvement in 20th century America	331
Alison J. Clarke, The aesthetics of social aspiration	335
11 Twentieth-century apartment dwelling, ideals and realities	350
Le Corbusier, The center of Paris	350
Alison and Peter Smithson, Urban structuring	353
Alison Ravetz with Richard Turkington, The high-rise estate	354
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange	360
J.S. Fuerst, High-rise living: what tenants say	365
David Popenoe, Pallingby	370
12 Some possible futures	383
Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, with Ellen Hertzman, How cohousing works: the Trudeslund community	384
John Leland, A prefab utopia – what happens when a furniture company builds a community	390
Allan D. Wallis, Mobile homes: form, meaning, and function	392
John Brinckerhoff Jackson, The mobile home on the range	397
Pohlig Builders, Harriton Farm, Villanova PA, advertising brochure	401
Norbert Schoenauer, Residential conversions	402
13 Where is Home?	408
Yi-Fu Tuan, Attachment to homeland	408
Ilya Utekhin, Filling dwelling place with history: communal apartments in St Petersburg	415
Deborah Tall, Dwelling: making peace with space and place	424
Bo Emerson, The shelter people	431
Barbara Miller Lane, Edgar Reitz's Heimat	435
Text source credits	440
Illustration source credits	445
Bibliography	447
Index	460