California: The Great Exception by Carey McWilliams
11: Design and Class
How do architecture and design work as markers of class? How have the socioeconomic and demographic character of patrons and clients for architecture varied over time and place? Is one’s idea of beauty inexorably tied to class? What is there to say about the social status of architects? In what ways do schools of architecture encourage exclusionary taste cultures? The essays that follow explore the complex and delicate relationship between design and class.
Articles
Table of Contents
Essay
Always in Good Taste
Penny Sparke
An Education in Distinction
Margaret Crawford
Class Notes
Michael Benedikt
Class Rites in the Age of the Blockbuster
Alan Wallach
Farewell, Bohemia
Rebecca Solnit
Inside the Blue Whale
Rick Poynor
Of Books, Lattes, and Class Distinctions
Jim Collins
Ornament and Spirit, Ornament and Class
Frederic J. Schwartz
Some Joint!
Iain Boyd Whyte
The Luxury of Lapidus
Alice T. Friedman
The Other Trump
Edward Eigen
The Social-Climbing Brick
Daniel Willis
Three Houses
Suzannah Lessard
Whimsy and Regimentation
Glenn Dixon
Review
Architecture and Modernity by Hilde Heynen
David Leatherbarrow
Autonomy and Ideology edited by Robert E. Somol
Andrew Herscher
California: The Great Exception by Carey McWilliams
Mitchell Schwarzer
Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory and The Anaesthetics of Architecture by Neal Leach
Anthony Vidler
The Anaesthetics of Architecture by Neal Leach
Anthony Vidler