What More Could You Ask For?

[domus48]

http://swamplot.com/behind-the-westminster-wall-still-modern-after-all-these-years/2010-05-13/#more-18436

[marketingwiz]

http://swamplot.com/...-13/#more-18436

This home is perfect in every way. I WANT IT!

[hugoks]

the article's comments on this house led to a discussion about carports and the following as to why midcentury modern homes frequently do not have garages:

The lack of enclosed garages on Post-war Modern homes has more to do with architects designing homes around the occupants and their lifestyle – in other words, the car was provided a resting place (sometimes covered, sometimes not) but the garage was likely seen as an excessive element to the Modernist spirit.

More significantly, the consumer culture – a.k.a. conspicuous consumption – was not as rampant in the 1950’s and 60’s as it became in the 70’s, 80’s and beyond. All one needs to do is to review total square footage dedicated to storage/closets in Modernist homes in contrast to contemporary homes – this exercise is further validated by looking at storage/closets in pre-WW2 homes. Tiny.

Take a look at a typical contemporary garage and you’ll find a plethora of things [previously] not commonly found in a garage prior to 1970. The garage has primarily become a storage room – and in its worst case, even the car is pushed out of its designated shelter.

To live modern is to live with the essentials.”

subsequent responses touched on the lack of security with a carport. for all that idealism, we still prefer a garage because potential burglars can't as easily tell if someone is home or not.

[texasdago]

I'll take it...