{"id":659,"date":"2010-03-04T12:50:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=659"},"modified":"2018-10-11T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:24:17","slug":"im-to-cool-for-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/03\/im-to-cool-for-my-house\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m too Cool for my House"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Building Museum’s current exhibit, Drawing Toward Home<\/a>,\u00a0begins with the spidery lines of a Samuel McIntire plan of a Federal style house to be built in Salem, Massachusetts in the late 1700s. The rooms aren\u2019t labeled, but simply marked with their measurements. The single sheet is a design, a contract, and a builder\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n

Very quickly, the exhibit\u2019s drawings of houses turn into drawings of home. Along with color and detail, they add emotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe architect must keep his client\u2019s enthusiasm alive and active by sending or submitting bright, jaunty little perspective sketches of his contemplate work,\u201d wrote Benjamin Linfoot in Architectural Picture Making<\/em> (1884).<\/p>\n

The drawings are partially the ploy of an architect to keep his client engaged and committed, but also a reflection of what we mean when we say home.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

It should be the place where the sun shines, flowers grow, and we hold hands.<\/p>\n

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Today we interpret such nostalgia two ways.\u00a0Massive neo-Victorians recall one idealized era of family, but with room for the SUV, microwave, and home theater.<\/p>\n

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Wouldn’t it be easier to shrink the kids?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Cool modern houses recall another, equally idealized time, when DDT and cigarettes were good for you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Honey, I’ve landed.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But life, as well as architectural drawings, are infinitely more complex these days. Where do you want to live\u2014cool or cozy? And will you be happy <\/a>there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Building Museum’s current exhibit, Drawing Toward Home,\u00a0begins with the spidery lines of a Samuel McIntire plan of a Federal style house to be built in Salem, Massachusetts in the late 1700s. The rooms aren\u2019t labeled, but simply marked with their measurements. The single sheet is a design, a contract, and a builder\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n

Very quickly, the exhibit\u2019s drawings of houses turn into drawings of home. Along with color and detail, they add emotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe architect must keep his client\u2019s enthusiasm alive and active by sending or submitting bright, jaunty little perspective sketches of his contemplate work,\u201d wrote Benjamin Linfoot in Architectural Picture Making<\/em> (1884).<\/p>\n

The drawings are partially the ploy of an architect to keep his client engaged … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[60,59,61],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","tag-home-design","tag-houses","tag-residential"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}