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ElenaBatunova11 января 2025 г.Domestic buildings—homes—are the steadiest changers, responding directly to the family’s ideas and annoyances, growth and prospects. The house and its occupants mold to each other twenty-four hours a day, and the building accumulates the record of that intimacy . That is far less the case with renters, who must ask permission from landlords and have no hope of financial gain from improvements, but two-thirds of Americans (and Britons) own their homes.
012- ElenaBatunova11 января 2025 г.
The conversion will be difficult because it is fundamental. The transition from image architecture to process architecture is a leap from the certainties of controllable things in space to the self-organizing complexities of an endlessly raveling and unraveling skein of relationships over time. Buildings have lives of their own.
07 - ElenaBatunova11 января 2025 г.
In vernacular traditions, the inside and outside of a building were treated as one, but in the academic tradition they have been separated ever since the Renaissance, when sculptors specialized in the shape and exterior of grand buildings, and painters decorated the interiors.
03 - ElenaBatunova11 января 2025 г.
SATISFICING doesn’t try to solve problems. It reduces them just enough.
04 - ElenaBatunova11 января 2025 г.Читать далее
“Every house is a work in progress,” writes David Owen: It begins in the imaginations of the people who build it and is gradually transformed, for better and for worse, by the people who occupy it down through the years, decades, centuries. To tinker with a house is to commune with the people who have lived in it before and to leave messag es for those who will live in it later. Every house is a living museum of habitation, and a monument to all the lives and aspirations that have flickered within it.
010 - ElenaBatunova11 января 2025 г.Читать далее
The essence of the new residential architecture is revealed in its twofold purpose: to base its plans upon the organic life of the family to be housed, and to make logical use of the products of invention. It has elected to make a fresh approach, to free itself of constraints, by consciously ignoring tradition and the expectations which the latter imposes with regard to facade and plan. The outward form of the modern house becomes the outgrowth of a plan built around the interests, routine activities, and aspirations of the client and his family expressed in terms of materials employed. Thus human need comes first. In skillful hands new appropriate and beautiful forms may emerge from an architecture which, discarding style, lets the house grow from the inside outwardly to express the life within
07 - ElenaBatunova11 января 2025 г.
EVERY HOUSE IS A “BIOG RAPHY” HOUSE—like Washington’s, Madison’s, and Jefferson’ s—to some degree. Families can’t help changing, and their homes can’t help changing with them.
08 - ElenaBatunova11 января 2025 г.
MOST building adaptation is, like most building evolution, vernacular.
07 - ElenaBatunova11 января 2025 г.Читать далее
The three things that change a building most are markets, money, and water. If you would ensure a building’ s longevity , protect it from markets and water, and feed it money, but not too much and not too little. Too much encourages orgies of radical remodeling that blow a building’ s continuity and integrity. Too little, and a building becomes destructive to itself and the people in it. Pressure to cut a building’ s running costs inspires such shortcuts as cheaper air filters, replaced less frequently, and a lower rate of air cycling, and mildew left in the ducts. Then suddenly some month everybody has headaches and allergies, people are taping ice cubes to the thermostats, and the union’s lawyers are on the phone.
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