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A Home Is Not A House
A Home Is Not A House
Six drawings have been realized by French architect and artist Franois Dallegret when asked in 1965 by Magazine Art in America to illustrate the article by Reyner Banham A Home is not a House (Art in America #2, 1965). In A Home is Not a House, Banham attacks the North-American houses, built without a proper protection from cold and warm weather, based upo a widespread use of heating pumps, a general waste of energy and the production of an environmental machinery. It starts like this:
When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi reverberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house to hold it up? The drawing Anatomy of a dwelling shows a huge network of cables and tubes, an accumulating baroque ensemble of domestic gadgets between the sky (with a Tv antenna) and the earth (a septic unit).
Naked and sat around a technological totem, Banham and Dallegret appear in Transportable standard-of-living package a mobile habitat environmentally friendly, equipped by solar panels, for an hippy yet hypertechnological nomad youth.
Anatomy of a dwelling
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