New Traditional Neighborhoods and New Urbanism where you can walk to work and the store are responses to what is wrong with the suburbs. The premise for the suburb is the reliance on the car for almost ever basic need. Frank Lloyd Wright promoted this vision with the Broadacre City. I don't think he would have endoresed the souless production in todays subdivisions. Wright connected to the land and inignited the imagination.
The "as much house as I get" mentality needs to be dealt with. Homes that are "right-sized" instead of "super-sized." The biggest is not always the best. Blindly looking at the square footage on the appraisal sheet to determine value is just wrong headed. Artistic merit and harmony with the environment don't show up in the cash column. Art is a good analogy. Do we want a big barn for our money? OR a New Regionalism-sublime interpetation of an agricultural shed. Modernism-you can have your barn as long as it has a flat roof is white and large pieces of glass to blur the sense of the outside with the inside, the cow likes that. Which brings us to Post-modern-a witty application of exaggerated classical orders. In other words a house with a point of view has soul it gets from being created. It becomes alive when every part of the house is lived in.
The "as much house as I get" mentality needs to be dealt with. Homes that are "right-sized" instead of "super-sized." The biggest is not always the best. Blindly looking at the square footage on the appraisal sheet to determine value is just wrong headed. Artistic merit and harmony with the environment don't show up in the cash column. Art is a good analogy. Do we want a big barn for our money? OR a New Regionalism-sublime interpetation of an agricultural shed. Modernism-you can have your barn as long as it has a flat roof is white and large pieces of glass to blur the sense of the outside with the inside, the cow likes that. Which brings us to Post-modern-a witty application of exaggerated classical orders. In other words a house with a point of view has soul it gets from being created. It becomes alive when every part of the house is lived in.
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