House Of The Future

Description

This special issue speculates on the future of our living environment through an examination of the ways in which the future of architecture and the city has been conceived since the beginning of the modern period, illustrated through plans and photos from past decades. The modern images of the future portray a utopian environment that is controlled and comfortable, whereas the 20th century has seen the decline of the house as the primary site of domesticity. The future of our living environment appears to be on a trajectory where the house as a physical place will disappear, itself subject to a process of dematerialisation across architecture, design, and technology today.

CONTENTS

Preface: Loosing Sight of the House
Chapter1: Introduction.

• A Domestic Future, The Future Woven into Everyday Life
• Domesticity

Chapter 2: Transforming The Domesticity

• 1906–1939: Industrialized Domesticity
• Industrialized Homesteading
• The Modernist Core
• The Mobile Home
• 1945–1972: Consuming Domesticity
• Hyper-Consumption
• Bubbles and Artificial Environments
• 1968–1996: Dispersing Domesticity
• Ecology and the Environment
• Domesticating the Digital: Smart Homes, Home Computers, Cell Phones
• Lifestyle: Branded Domesticity
• Concluding the 20th Century: Network Domesticity

Chapter 3: The Future is the Expansion of Domesticity

• The New Domesticity
• Experience
• Access
• Connection
• Management
• Conclusion: The Present of the Futue
• List of References & Credits

150 pages, ills colour & bw / 15 x 21 cm / English, Japanese