Similar to the idea of the California Bungalow reasserting the idea of traditional gender roles in the early twentieth century, the California Bungalow focused on the contrast of the main two types and districts in the region with craftsman bungalows: the workers’ cottage and the minimal bungalow districts. Each of these represent “contrasting sets of urban forms” in this era, as well as the idea of affirming social status. While both forms have similar spatial rules and floor plans, the minimal bungalow represents the desire of the Bay Area to represent the California dream in the early twentieth century. For example, the workers’ cottage represented little to no uniformity and impermanence. The bungalow would have been constructed and then …show more content…
This comparison delves deeper into the pressure of the community represent uniformity as a signifier of social status. For example, the newspaper the San Francisco Call, had a home decor column written by Greenleaf Locke, who described “The Pure Joy of Designing a Home.” In her writing, she described what a craftsman bungalow should look like and what features it should include. She constantly used phrases that gave the feeling that theses homes and spaces should appear a certain way based on the architectural style and the trend regardless of personal style. She wrote when describing what wall finishes to use in a bungalow house, “this is not a rule”- except for the “correct taste… the taste may be acquired if one 'has it not’." In this article, she wrote telling the audience what finishes were acceptable and to use these specified finishes in their home regardless of whether they may like them or not because it was a trend. Essentially, she emphasized the idea of uniformity, that many of the neighborhoods in the Bay Area had already emphasized, in order to reiterate the importance of social status in society. Additionally, she declared, “It is important to point out the features which distinguish a good bungalow from a bad one, and to suggest certain architectural points which give character and beauty to a house without adding …show more content…
For instance, innovations in the home in terms of new features and rooms. The three fixture bathroom was new to homes in the 1900s to 1930s. These bathrooms included a bathtub, sink, and toilet; these rooms solved many problems of hygiene, sanitation, and health because previously those things had not been looked at as very important. For many, the addition of the three fixture bathroom was a large leap from the previous bathrooms mainly comprised of outhouses, public toilets, and public baths. While not everyone could afford this model of the bathroom, it was something that people strived to because it was a trend that was gaining popularity, and people started to see hygiene and sanitation as more important in society. Additionally, there were additions to the kitchen, particularly new kitchen fixtures. In the early twentieth century, kitchens started having sinks with plumed or pumped water, water heaters, refrigerators from the previous ice box, and washing machines. All of these new kitchen technologies signaled the purpose of innovation as to make the domestic life easier and more efficient. Many started to contrast the old features of a home and use the example to stress the superiority of the new features. Consequently, In Kate Greenleaf Locke’s newspaper column, she wrote about how
In his opinionated book, From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe describes his views on the way architecture has framed our modern world. He frames his book long essay with an excerpt from America the Beautiful, "O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power have paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested as within thy blessed borders today? . . . Every child goes to school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts wholesale distribution warehouse . . . Every new $900,000 summer house in the north woods of Michigan or on the shore of Long Island has so many pipe railings, ramps, hob-tread metal spiral stairways, sheets of industrial plate glass, banks of tungsten-halogen lamps, and white cylindrical shapes, it looks like an insecticide refinery." (Wolfe 1) This quote, in short, is the premise of his critique. He does not like the way modern architecture
The arrival of immigrants triggered a rapid urbanization of the major cities in the United States. New buildings were built to keep up with the city’s population increase, new modes of transportation were built in order to get across the city faster, and settlement house were created The immigrants rushed into cities causing skyscrapers and tenements to be build. As a result of limited land, businesses decide to build the business up instead of out. In addition, many of the immigrants were poor, so the tenement was invented. A tenement is a building full of small apartments that would house many families. Document two shows an immigrant family living in one of these tenements. In addition, to changes in building there were also changes
As humans grow and mature, they obtain knowledge of the world around them as they go through self-discovery and learn from past events. In the story, “The House on Mango Street,” by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza undergoes a series of transformations from someone who was clueless about the world, to someone who is experienced. Cisneros uses transformation to show how Esperanza changed from a clueless inexperienced girl, to an experienced adult. As one grows older, they go through self-discovery and experiences that help them gain knowledge of reality.
The need for suburbs following WWII was due partially to a rise in migrants in America who needed homes, a need for jobs for returning Veterans, and the introduction of “low-interest home [mortgages]” (“Suburbanization in the United States After 1945”). These houses were designed to be produced in mass quantities, meaning that the quality of the building materials used in these houses was far from exceptional; however, many of the houses interiors were equipped with “up-to-date appliances, mechanical systems and utilities” (“Suburbanization in the United States After 1945”). Additionally, early suburbs cultivated a sense of assimilation for new residents. Suburbs provided “Italians, Poles, Greeks, Jews, and other European-Americans” with a way to more easily homogenize with white Americans, leading to a racial divide in suburbs amongst races and ethnicities who were unable to pass as white (“Suburbanization in the United States After 1945”). Once the European ethnic groups integrated into the white suburbs, they found that they could “[attain] symbols of white, middle-class status, such as college educations, pensions, [and] small businesses” (“Suburbanization in the United States After 1945”). As reflected in Reynold’s second verse, “the people in the houses/All went to the
Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, as well as Eugene Jarecki’s documentary, The House I Live In, both discuss the controversial issues surrounding the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and drug laws. Ultimately, both Alexander and Jarecki concede that the court systems have systematically hindered growth and advancement in black communities by targeting young African Americans, primarily male, that have become entangled in drugs due to their socioeconomic status. There is a disturbing cycle seen in black underprivileged neighborhoods of poverty leading to drug use and distribution to make money that inevitably ends with the person in question landing in prison before likely repeating these actions upon their release. Both Jarecki and Alexander present their case, asserting that the effects of the War on Drugs acted as a catalyst for the asymmetric drug laws and
Society in America during the 1950’s was one that portrayed men and women in very different, but rigid roles. Women were housewives, secretaries, and mothers. Men were providers, war heroes, and businessmen. Television, newspapers and magazines played an important role as well in determining ways men and women should behave. Advertisements for real estate were designed to sell to the “All-American” family. For example; Dad would be the returned home veteran who is now running the company, Mom is an ideal housewife who works a couple days a week for extra vacation cash, little Billy likes baseball and his sister Susie plays with dolls. Houses designed with this type of family in mind would prove very effective in luring away many from the city to live in suburbs like this at a rapid pace. Most jobs in the work place were gender divided. Help-wanted ads placed in newspapers in the 1950’s were very gender biased as well. Some ads with attention getting headlines could have read: “Sales Girl,” and “Brides! Housewives!” Occupations offered to women at this time were very limiting.
In Alice Walker’s Short story “Everyday Use” a mother is conflicted between her two daughters and the families quilt. Maggie is uneducated and financial unstable, and Dee is a well-educated woman that’s embarrassed of her family. Each believing they are entitled to family inheritance. The story characterize heritage and how heritage is portaged differently between the two sister. The main characters in this story, "Mama" and Maggie are on one side, and Dee on the other, each have opposing views on the value and worth of the various items in their lives, this conflict makes the point that the substance of an object is more important than style.
To appreciate a row house neighborhood, one must first look at the plan as a whole before looking at the individual blocks and houses. The city’s goal to build a neighborhood that can be seen as a singular unit is made clear in plan, at both a larger scale (the entire urban plan) and a smaller scale (the scheme of the individual houses). Around 1850, the city began to carve out blocks and streets, with the idea of orienting them around squares and small residential parks. This Victorian style plan organized rectangular blocks around rounded gardens and squares that separated the row houses from major streets. The emphasis on public spaces and gardens to provide relief from the ene...
He created a style of architecture to reflect America’s character. The central themes of his style were the landscape, people, and democracy in America. His style was heavily influenced by the midwest, the region where he grew up. His houses aimed to encourage the inhabitants to connect and communicate with one another. The hearth, dining room, and terrace all exemplify this, creating, and open, warm and welcoming space.
But these contrived differences give rise to esthetic difficulties too. Because inherent differences—those that come from genuinely differing uses—are lacking among the buildings and their settings, the contrivances repre...
California saw many changes very fast. Most of these play part in shaping it into what it is today. From Hollywood to San Francisco, today’s lifestyles in California have roots in the Gold Rush. Because the failure rate was so high, it became common to come out to California lookin...
of the structure itself. This class "took immense pride in their homes which they saw as a reflection of status" ("BBC Homes"). The styles were excessively ornamental and took their influence from Gothic styles, rococo, styles, the Orient, and developments from their own industrialization. With owning such ornately decorated residences they had to show them off; this was done so through dinner parties and balls. People of course could not be outmatched by the rich styles of their houses and therefore doled out large amounts of money for clothes and transportation.
In the novel, The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros describes the problems that Latino women face in a society that treats them as second class citizens. A society that is dominated by men, and a society that values women for what they look like, and not for what is on inside. In her Novel Cisneros wants us to envision the obstacles that Latino women must face everyday in order to be treated equally.
Frank Lloyd Wright has been called “one of the greatest American architect as well as an Art dealer that produced a numerous buildings, including houses, resorts, gardens, office buildings, churches, banks and museums. Wright was the first architect that pursues a philosophy of truly organic architecture that responds to the symphonies and harmonies in human habitats to their natural world. He was the apprentice of “father of Modernism” Louis Sullivan, and he was also one of the most influential architects on 20th century in America, Wright is idealist with the use of elemental theme and nature materials (stone, wood, and water), the use of sky and prairie, as well as the use of geometrical lines in his buildings planning. He also defined a building as ‘being appropriate to place’ if it is in harmony with its natural environment, with the landscape (Larkin and Brooks, 1993).
Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier are two very prominent names in the field of architecture. Both architects had different ideas concerning the relationship between humans and the environment. Their architectural styles were a reflection of how each could facilitate the person and the physical environment. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, is considered one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture and Le Corbusier s Villa Savoye helped define the progression that modern architecture was to take in the 20th Century. Both men are very fascinating and have strongly influenced my personal taste for modern architecture. Although Wright and Corbusier each had different views on how to design a house, they also had similar beliefs. This paper is a comparison of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s and Le Corbusier ‘s viewpoints exhibited through their two prominent houses, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House and Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye.