CONTENTS
I. Introduction xv
1.Homes and Houses 1
2.Home Sweet Bungalow Home 3
Good Housekeeping 8
The Androgynous Home 18
Looking Back to the Future 22
If a Chair Is a Work of Art, Can You Still Sit on It? 27
Getting Away from It All 34
As American as Blue-Jeans and Sweat Shirts 49
From Mao's House to Our House 53
Habitat Revisited 60
Hot Housing Buttons 66
Living Smaller 71
Should Suburbs Be Designed? 99
Our Town 106
II. Special Places 113
A Place Map 115
Art Inside the Walls 120
Airports 139
At the Mall 144
Curious Shrines 149
The Birthplace of Postmodernism 154
A National Gallery 159
A National Billboard 167
A Homemade House 173
III. The Art of Building 181
Little Architects, Little Architecture 183
"But Is It Art"? 187
How to Pick an Architect 193
Fame 202
Low-Cost Classicism 209
A Decade of Disorientation: 1910-19 220
High Tech 229
Will the Real California Architecture Please Stand Up? 238
Shaping Chicago's Future 250
God Isn't in the Details, After All 255
The Seven Implants of Postmodern Architecture 259
Listen to the Melody 264
Reprise: The Art of Building, or the Building of Art? 270
Index 289