New Cities/New Soviets

December 12, 2004

Teige on the evolution of dwelling


production
cooking
housework
sleeping
recreation & eating   
child rearing
= Primitive dwelling
Single, universal dwelling space of undiffer-
entiated functions.


(Today persists in the form of the so-called live-in kitchen.)

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The differentiated dwelling of the ruling class

1234
kitchendining1,2,3,4, etc.
bedrooms
1,2,3, etc.
children's rms.
larderstudy &
library
bathroometc.
servant's
room
master's
room
etc.
laundry &
drying room
lady's room1 = economic functions -- family household
2 = social functions -- actual processes of dwelling
3 = biological functions -- sleeping and recreation
4 = children's rooms
etc.salon, guest
rooms, etc.


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Proletarian abode
(The dwelling of the classes of the subsistence minimum)

room with a cooking range        
or
live-in kitchen

   sleeping   

Posted by Sam at December 12, 2004 10:04 AM

that last box is where
i lived thru ten years
of boarding school
and 4 years of college

attend and beware

are life long
people warrens like "the friends-coop"
or " SWINEFELDS "
really an answer
or
a collectivized purification
of todays already
ordinary pre familly
pro burger urban set up
any more then a projection
same old same old
puttin on a super hero costume party ?

Posted by: pinky at December 15, 2004 12:57 PM

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