Friday, May 4, 2012

Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing (Places: Design Observer)

"Suburbia is a complete environment, born of the manic restoration of arcadia, painstakingly reassembled and neurotically reinforced through social practice, law and an omnipresent desire to be well groomed and nice."

"Our experience convinced us that contemporary architecture is still understood within the suburbs as an alternative to daily existence — it is a wholly different type of building or environment, one to be experienced on holidays, trips downtown and so on."

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