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Living in Glass Houses By Kevin Melchionne Pages: 228,229,230,231,232 The chapter is about aesthetics and the interior. Philip Johnson’s design is mainly hyper-organised interior
- environment. The famous Glass House is located in New Canaan. The Glass Houses walls are made out of plate
- glass. This piece is an example of high modernist Architecture and Interior Design. The Glass House has a high
number of visitors that debate if this property could be used as Domesticity or inhabit to live in. The whole concept is about if WE CAN LIVE HAPPILY WITH ART OR SOME CANNOT LIVE HAPPILY WITHOUT IT! Example - some can not live in Art or even in a White cube… Environmental Aesthetic of Domestic space. The arguments in this chapter is mainly about if it is Livable or Unlivable and also if its an Environmental Art or Domesticity Environment. The Qs asked…. Do you think Philip Johnson used this piece of work to promote himself as an architect or to prove a point on aesthetics.??? The conclusion I have come to is, the difference between an environmental aesthetic and domesticity. Some people may not be able to live in an environmental art space but someone that is single and doesn’t have a
- verload of thing to do can do. We should always have thoughts and more ideas about our interiors. It also