Jayne Merkel asks in the NYT if we can return to Mies' ideal of less is more in the post bubble housing market?
Jayne Merkel asks in the NYT if we can return to Mies' ideal of less is more in the post bubble housing market?
More cool photos of Rapson, Mies, and Levitown in the article.
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Ahh yes, the bashing of the American middle class continues unabated under the guise of efficiency and green living by the academic crowd. If the dastardly suburbanites all lived in Sarenin derived managed growth wood sided boxes the same style police would be clamoring for a return to mannerly Tudors for a little culturing up.
yeah, because the middle has been soooo good for you and me...the soft paunchy middle.
I'm so sick of Mies being misrepresented. It's a design paradigm, not a call for efficiency!
This article seems a bit off-base to me. Wasn't the goal of places like Levittown that families could have their own house and yard, and thus not have to live in dense apartments - in other words, each family could have more?
Also: I have a bunch of builder and design magazines form the 50s - the builders of that era were trying to build the biggest homes for the cheapest price that they possibly could so as to sell the most units and make the most profit, just like today.
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