By Tony Chapman, Jenny Hockey
Perfect houses? exhibits how either well known photographs and reviews of domestic existence relate to the power of society's individuals to supply and reply to social switch. The publication offers for the 1st time an research of the distance of the house and the studies of domestic existence through writers from quite a lot of disciplines, together with sociology, structure, geography and anthropology. It covers a variety of matters, together with gender roles, diverse generations relationships to domestic, the altering nature of the kin, transition and probability and substitute visions of domestic.
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Contrary to popular public opinion, the architectural ‘establishment’ is generally positive towards Modernism and wants to single out the best examples of Modern housing and add them to the canon of great architecture. In the social discourses of housing, however, including accounts of the housing system, housing processes and housing problems, we find an almost unanimous condemnation of Modern housing as a ‘failure’. Morris and Winn 1990). In practical terms, its owners— mainly local councils—have either destroyed and replaced them, or else restyled them in a more popular idiom.
These distinctive houses looked quite unlike traditional and established designs, lacking almost all reference to native historical forms and elements and manifesting ‘an efficiency style’ in place of the contemporary taste for the vernacular and the picturesque. They were mostly built in concrete or finished in render, with plain white-painted surfaces, flat roofs, sun decks and metal railings. They also had novel internal spatial arrangements such as multifunctional, openplan areas and double height rooms.
In addition she selected and displayed the ‘curiosities, handsome books, photographs, engravings, stereoscopes, medallions, any works of art you may own,’ which were the stage properties of polite social intercourse. ’ The polite Victorian hostess was not simply an actress in the genteel performance; she was also the stage manager, who exercised great responsibility for the performances of everyone who entered her parlour. (Halttunen 1982:105) A key feature of these genteel performances was the careful maintenance of the privacy of the back regions of the house.