On Twitter, following up
Monday’s post, Jason Parks
highlights some of his favorite Modernist texts portraying returns home: “The novel No-No
Boy by John Okada, Hemingway's "Soldier's Home,"
& various characters in Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.”
As an Architect’s
Daughter (her caps), Irene
Martyniuk responds to the series by writing, “It seems to me that
the aporia in your posts is the actual physicality of a home/house itself.
America boasts some amazing houses in a number of categories. There are the
super indulgent ones that people can now tour in Newport, but there are also
the homes designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright, Walter Gropius, and others (like the Glass House in Connecticut)
that dot our landscape. These buildings have challenged us to rethink what
space is and what is lived in space. I know my father is groaning at my
clumsiness in writing this, but how we enclose space is vital to how we live.
Architects encourage us to rethink space—how we use it, how we live in it, how
we make it our own. The idea that there is a perfect space for everyone is
balderdash, of course. Different cultures also have vastly different kinds of
homes. The Peabody Essex
Museum has a walk-through of a Chinese house, and most of us learn about
Native American houses when we are growing up. The idea is that the physicality
of space as it relates to a home is vastly different from culture to culture,
but within a culture as well. … I guess my point is that architecture
and architects should not be left out of the AmericanStudies discussion when it
comes to homes and houses.”
Special post tomorrow,
Ben
PS. American images, ideas, and themes of home you’d add to these? Share
‘em please!
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