Interior Landscapes

The following are quotes that I found interesting and thought provoking from the book Interior Landscapes.

"... is based on the realization that the designer, or the householder, who wants to think about how a home ought to be made is faced by a particular difficulty today: on the one hand, the multiplicity of models; on the other, the absence of any sort of absolute model in the field of housing." pg. 7

"Ever since the well-known "Weimar Week" at the Bauhaus in 1923, dealing with the problem of the house, and the exhibitions of prototypes for living cells staged by Milan Triennale in ParcoSempione in the thirties, exhibitions on the home have almost always presented the public with a vision of models that could in ideal fashion "become the starting-point for mass production". We say 'ideal' because in reality this did not happen, demonstrating just how difficult it is to treat the home as an industrial product like the motor-car." pg. 7

The house of mankind - Mario Bellini

Walter Benjamin noted that "the original form of any mode of dwelling is that of living, not in a house, but in a shell. This bears the mark of inhabitant. The dwelling turns into a shell." pg. 9

Benjamin - "the 20th century with its porosity, its transparency and it bias towards light and open air put an end to dwelling in the old sense of the word." pg. 21

"Today, exhibitions on the home no longer offer futuristic or speculative metaphors, but the realization - already accomplished - of life in space: private telecommunications, robots and transformation of the two-rooms-and-a-kitchen into an orbital satellite." pg. 15

C.E. Gadda - "the house of today, the reformed house, the transformed house is impotent to preserve and defend its residents and their nerves from the outrageous strain ('of modern life')." pg. 16

Interior Landscapes - Georges Teyssot