Challenging the bourgeois ideal of the nuclear family, the Schindler-Chace House (1922) emerges as an architectural experiment shaped by Rudolph Schindler and his companion Pauline Gibling as a political and cultural vision. Pauline envisioned a space that dissolves traditional domestic hierarchies, fostering individual autonomy within a communal structure. Influenced probably by Marxist thought and feminist activism, her role transcends that of muse or patron, embodying architecture as critique. By reimagining family and domesticity through spatial innovation, Kings Road prefigures egalitarian models of coexistence that respond to Engels’ diagnosis of the family as a patriarchal and economic construct.
Genere e rivoluzione domestica. L'architettura di Rudolph Schindler e Pauline Gibling a Kings Road
Ghezzi y Alvarez, Alberto
2025-01-01
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Challenging the bourgeois ideal of the nuclear family, the Schindler-Chace House (1922) emerges as an architectural experiment shaped by Rudolph Schindler and his companion Pauline Gibling as a political and cultural vision. Pauline envisioned a space that dissolves traditional domestic hierarchies, fostering individual autonomy within a communal structure. Influenced probably by Marxist thought and feminist activism, her role transcends that of muse or patron, embodying architecture as critique. By reimagining family and domesticity through spatial innovation, Kings Road prefigures egalitarian models of coexistence that respond to Engels’ diagnosis of the family as a patriarchal and economic construct.
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