Maison de Verre: Sections through an in-vitro conception

Journal of Architecture

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-286

  Wigglesworth, Sarah ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61249201596     PISSN: 13602365     EISSN: 14664410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136023698374206     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. For example, see Richard Rogers, 'Paris, 1930', Domus, no. 443 (October 1966), pp. 8-19.
2. Mark Cousins, 'The first house', Arch-Text, 1 (1993), p. 36 pp 77-126.
3. Kenneth Frampton, 'Maison de Verre', Perspecta, 12 (1969).
4. Paolo Mellis, 'Il Grande Vetro deli-Architettura', Domus, 640 (June 1983), pp. 22-29.
5. Brian Brace Taylor, 'Voir et savoir dans la Maison de Verre', Connaissance des Arts, (1992), pp. 54-60.
6. For a history of Chareau's career, see Brian Brace Taylor, Pierre Chareau: Designer and Architect, (Cologne, Benedikt Taschen, 1 992). During this period Chareau's collaborator was the Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet.
7. I refer in particular to Christine Battersby, Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics, (London, The Women's Press, 1989).
8. Battersby, Gender and Genius, esp. Chapter 5 ff.
9. Jerzy Soltan. 'Working with Le Corbusier', in H. Allen Brooks, (ed.), Le Corbusier: The Garland Essays (New York, London: Garland, 1987), pp. 1-17.
10. Le Corbusier is perhaps responsible for the propagation of this attitude: his dismissive behaviour towards his clients has been documented. See for example, Tim Benton, 'Villa Savoie and the architect's practice', in Brooks, Le Corbusier, pp. 83-105.
11. She introduced Chareau to a number of avant-garde artists and designers, as well as providing space for his own talent. See Taylor, Pierre Chareau, pp. 8-9.
12. See Kenneth Frampton, 'Maison de Verre', Arena, 81 (901), (April 1966), p. 257.
13. See Kenneth Frampton and Marc Vellay, Pierre Chareau: Architect and Craftsman 1883-1950, (Rizzoli, 1984), p. 237 and 246-8,
14. and Frampton, Perspecta, p. 77.
15. Some account for the fact that Chareau never produced a subsequent building to match the Maison de Verre by attributing the design to his partner Bernard Bijvoet. Yet Bijvoet never claimed authorship despite his involvement in the project. See, for instance, the section written by Bijvoet in Mellis, 'Il Grande Vetro dell'Architettura', p. 22.
16. Frampton and Vellay, Pierre Chareau, p. 241. The source of this description is not identified.
17. For example, Urbanisme, (Editions Crés), first published in Paris in 1924,
18. Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow, (London, The Architectural Press, 1947).
19. 'The condition of the whole city lies in the condition of its cells .', Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow, p. 85.
20. He elaborated this theory in Le Corbusier, Précisions, in particular the chapters entitled 'The undertaking of furniture' and 'A man = a dwelling; dwellings = a city'. See also Charlotte Benton, Charlotte Perriand, Modernist Pioneer (Design Museum, 1996), for an account of Perriand's collaboration with Le Corbusier on the project for the modern interior.
21. See, for example, Lisa Tierson, 'The chic interior and the feminine modern: home decorating as high art in turn of the century Paris', in Christopher Reed (ed) Not at home: the Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (London, Thames & Hudson, 1996), pp. 18-33.
22. For example, Eileen Gray. See Philippe Garner, Eileen Gray: Design and Architecture, 1878-1976, (Cologne, Benedikt Taschen, 1993).
23. See, for instance, Mary Dally, Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery (London, Hutchinson Radius, 1991).
24. William Ray Arney, Power and the Profession of Obstetrics (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1981), p. 6.
25. Men were considered to need sex to remain healthy whereas in women eroticism was regarded as pathological. Gena Correa, The Hidden Malpractice - How American Medicine Mistreats Women (New York, Harper Colophon Books, 1985).
26. James V. Ricci, One Hundred Years of Gynaecology 1800-1900 (Philadelphia, The Blakiston Company, 1945).
27. Brian Brace (Cologne, Benedikt Taschen, 1992) Taylor, Pierre Chareau, etc.
28. I am indebted for this critique to Emily Martin, 'Science and women's bodies: forms of anthropological knowledge', in Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller and Sally Shuttleworth (eds), Body/Politics (New York and London, Routledge, 1990), pp. 69-82.
29. During a routine internal examination, the doctor would peer through the speculum into the vagina. He would need a source of light in order to see into the cavity. Historically, the genital area of the female patient would be placed facing a source of daylight (a window, for example); sometimes the doctor's assistant would carry a beam of light or one would be strapped to his head. See, for example, James V Ricci, The Development of Gynaecological Surgery and Instruments. (Philadelphia, The Blakiston Company, 1949), pp. 345-6,
30. and Harold Speert, Obstetric and Gynaecological Milestones Illustrated, (Parthenon Publishing Group, Carnforth, 1 996), p. 484.
31. Harold Speert, Histoire Illustrée de la Gynocologie et de l'Obstetrique, (Paris, Les Editions Roger Dacosta, 1973), pp. 284 and 490.
32. Laura Mulvey, 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema', Screen, 16 (1973), pp. 6-18.
33. This is a situation comparable to that described by Beatriz Colomina in the interiors of Adolf Loos in her essay 'The split wall: domestic voyeurism', in Sexuality and Space (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992) pp. 73-128.