Architecture in everyday life

New Literary History

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 707-723

  Upton, Dell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 60950570633     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2002.0046     Document Type: Review

References (66)

1. Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World, tr. Sacha Rabinovitch (New Brunswick, N.J., 1984), pp. 14, 8; hereafter cited in text as EL
2. Henri Lefebvre. "The Everyday and Everydayness," in Architecture of the Everyday, ed. Steven Harris and Deborah Berke (New York, 1997), p. 34
3. Steven Harris, "Everyday Architecture," in Architecture of the Everyday, p. 3; hereafter cited in text as EA
4. Margaret Crawford, "Introduction" to Everyday Urbanism, ed. John Chase. Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski (New York, 1999), p. 9; hereafter cited in text as IEU
5. Henry-Russell Hitchcock Jr. and Philip Johnson, The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 (New York, 1932)
6. Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Cambridge, Mass., 1941)
7. Bruno Zevi, Architecture as Space: How to Look at Architecture (New York, 1957)
8. Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space [1974], tr. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford, 1991); hereafter cited in text as PS
9. For an important discussion of Lefebvre's relevance to Architecture, see Mary McLeod, "Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life: An Introduction," in Architecture of the Everyday, pp. 9-29
10. Gwendolyn Wright eloquently describes one episode in the struggle between architects and builders in Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913 (Chicago, 1980), pp. 40-78
11. Magali Sarfatti Larson, The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis (Berkeley, 1977), pp. 15-18, 24, 38
12. Nikolaus Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture, 7th ed. (Harmondsworth, 1970), p. 15
13. Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (New York, 1964)
14. Felicity Scott, "Bernard Rudofsky: Allegories of Nomadism and Dwelling," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture, ed. Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Réjean Legault (Cambridge, Mass., 2000), p. 215. Rudofsky's book remains in print, having defined the exotic realm of "the vernacular" for several generations of Architectural teachers and students now
15. Denise Scott Brown, "Learning from Pop" [1971]
16. in Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, A View from the Campidoglio: Selected Essays, 1953-1984, ed. Peter Arnell, Ted Bickford, and Catherine Bergart (New York, 1984), p. 27
17. Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, rev. ed. (Cambridge, Mass., 1977), p. 3; hereafter cited in text as LV
18. On Venturi and Scott Brown's implied claims for the superior authenticity of popular aesthetics, see Deborah Fausch, "Ugly and Ordinary: The Representation of the Everyday," in Architecture of the Everyday, p. 104
19. Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till, "The Everyday and Architecture," in The Everyday and Architecture, no. 134 of Architectural Design Profile, ed. Wigglesworth and Till (London, 1998), p. 7; hereafter cited in text as EVA
20. Denise Scott Brown, "Pop Off: Reply to Kenneth Frampton" [1971], in View from the Campidoglio, p. 34; hereafter cited in text as PO
21. John Friedmann, "The City of Everyday Life: Knowledge/Power and the Problem of Representation," DISP, 136 (1999), 8
22. For a discussion of Lefebvre's notion of the extraordinary embedded in the ordinary, see McLeod, "Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life," pp. 13, 19
23. Rob Shields, Lefebvre, Love and Struggle: Spatial Dialectics (London, 1999), p. 71; hereafter cited in text as LL
24. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, tr. Steven Rendell (Berkeley, 1984), p. 48: hereafter cited in text as PEL
25. Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, tr. John Moore, vol. 1 (London, 1991), p. 182. Italics in the original. Hereafter cited in text as CEL
26. Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, tr. Frederick Etchells (New York, 1960), pp. 23-24
27. Norman Millar, "Street Survival: The Plight of the Los Angeles Vendors," in Everyday Urbanism, pp. 136-51
28. John Chase, "The Giant Revolving (Winking) Chicken Head and the Doggie Drinking Fountain: Making Small Public Spaces on Private Land by Using Commonplace Objects," in Everyday Urbanism, pp. 110-19
29. Níall McLaughlin, "Shack, Foxhall, Northamptonshire," in The Everyday and Architecture, pp. 42-47
30. Phillip Hall-Patch, "Breaking the Veil," in The Everyday and Architecture, pp. 36-39
31. Günther Behnisch, "Circumstantial Architecture," in The Everyday and Architecture, pp. 88-95
32. Joan Ockman, "Toward a Theory of Normative Architecture," in Architecture of the Everyday, p. 1 23. Ockman credits the notion of a major and minor architecture to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
33. and Charles Jencks and George Baird, ed., Meaning in Architecture (New York, 1970)
34. On generative grammar: Henry Glassie, Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts (Knoxville, 1975)
35. On deconstruction: Christopher Norris and Andrew Benjamin, What Is Deconstruction? (London, 1988)
36. Michael Benedikt, Deconstructing the Kimbell: An Essay on Meaning and Architecture (New York, 1991)
37. Mark Wigley, The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt (Cambridge, Mass., 1993)
38. For a current example of the normative use of a discourse model, see Sarah Williams Goldhagen's characterization of Louis Kahn's buildings as "intertexts" and "powerful aesthetic propositions." (Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism, [New Haven, 2001], p. 5.)
39. John Dewey, Art as Experience [1934] (New York, 1979), pp. 24, 47
40. Bruce Glaser, "Questions to Stella and Judd" [1966], in Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. Gregory Battcock (Berkeley, 1995), p. 155
41. Donald Judd, "Specific Objects" [1965], in Minimalism, ed. James Meyer (New York, 2000), pp. 207-10
42. James Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (New Haven, 2001), p. 24
43. Robert Morris, "Notes on Sculpture, Part II" [1966], in Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris (Cambridge, Mass., 1993), p. 11
44. Michael Fried, "Art and Objecthood" [1967], in Minimal Art, pp. 116-47
45. The art historian James Meyer notes that Morris's own sculpture "orchestrated a choreographed movement around the work and the gallery. . . . the Morris [work] was to be experienced by an ambient body that walked around, and through, the work itself." (Meyer, Minimalism, p. 51.)
46. Carl Andre, quoted in Anna C. Chave, "Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power," Arts Magazine, 64 (1990), 44
47. Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension (Garden City, N.Y., 1969), p. 119; hereafter cited in text as HD
48. Naomi Eilan, Anthony Marcel, and José Luis Bermúdez, "Self-Consciousness and the Body: An Interdisciplinary Introduction," in The Body and the Self, ed. José Luis Bermúdez, Anthony Marcel, and Naomi Eilan (Cambridge, Mass.. 1995), p. 20
49. Celia A. Brownell and Claire B. Kopp, "Common Threads, Diverse Solutions: Concluding Commentary." Developmental Review, 11 (1991), 297
50. John Campbell, "The Body Image and Self-Consciousness," in The Body and the Self, p. 34
51. George Butterworth, "An Ecological Perspective on the Origins of Self," in The Body and, the Self, p. 101; hereafter cited in text as EP
52. Anthony P. Cohen, Self-Consciousness: An Alternative Anthropology of Identity (London, 1994), pp. 122-32
53. James J. Gibson, The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (Boston, 1966), pp. 18-19
54. Jacques Paillard, "Motor and Representational Framing of Space," in Brain and Space, ed. Jacques Paillard (Oxford, 1991), p. 164
55. On Lefebvre's connection with surrealism, see Shields, Lefehvre, pp. 71, 76, 155
56. Gardiner, Critiques of Everyday Life, pp. 72-73, 82-83
57. Ulric Neisser, "Five Kinds of Self-Knowledge," Philosophical Psychology, 1 (1988), 35-59
58. Neisser's term "ecological" was borrowed from James J. Gibson, whose work underpins much of the contemporary philosophical and psychological work on selfhood. Gibson stressed the ways that evolution had given animate beings direct access to necessary information from their environments; the capacity is built into human (and other beings') sensorimotor systems and requires no cultural information or even life experience to shape it. His most famous examples were drawn from the optical structure of the world. Gibson showed that animate beings' visual systems were attuned to the environmental phenomena of "looming," in which objects directly in front of us appear to grow larger as we approach; of occlusion, in which one object appears to disappear as it passes behind another; and of "optical flow," the continuous "streaming" of peripheral visual images as we move through space. These map a unique point of view, Neisser's ecological self, at their intersection. (James J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception [Boston, 1979], pp. 78-86, 103-4, 227-29)
59. Ulric Neisser, "The Self Perceived," in The Perceived Self: Ecological and Interpersonal Sources of Self-Knowledge, ed. Ulric Neisser (Cambridge, 1993), p. 4
60. Calvin O. Schrag, The Self after Postmodernity (New Haven, 1997), p. 61; hereafter cited in text as SP
61. Henri Lefebvre, "The Right to the City," in Writings on Cities, tr. and ed. Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas (Oxford, 1996), pp. 63-181
62. For a fuller discussion of urban tobacco use, see Dell Upton, "Inventing the Metropolis: Civilization and Urbanity in Antebellum New York," in Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861, ed. Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat (New York, 2000), pp. 33-34
63. Shaun Gallagher, "Body Image and Body Schema: A Conceptual Clarification," Journal of Mind, and Behavior, 7 (1986), 546, 548
64. Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice, tr. Richard Nice (Stanford, 1990), p. 52; hereafter cited in text
65. Physiologists and anthropologists have made similar observations about the ways particular sensory experiences trigger particular emotions or memories simply as a product of the idiosyncratic wiring of the human brain. See for example Rodney Needham, "Percussion and Transition," Man, 2 (1967), 606-14
66. Michael Davis, "The Role of the Amygdala in Fear and Anxiety,'" Annual Review of Neuroscience, 15 (1992), 353-75