1945-1972: Consuming Domesticity

摘要

With the house industrialized and reduced to a shell, domesticity became constituted by the emerging post-war consumer culture. That is to say, the Modern conception of domesticity, one of mere existence conflated with machine ideology resulted not in architecture's control over domesticity, but in architecture's loss of agency over the domestic realm. Domesticity became cultivated by an abundance of amenities, technologies, furnishings and other interior objects produced by the post-war consumer goods industry. These changes, visible at the end of World War Ⅱ, prompted a general shift in domesticity from one of industrialization (or production) to one of consumption.