suburbia

In The Poetics of Space , Gaston Bachelard argued that “intimate immensity” emerges in places that balance shelter and horizon. Suburbs invert this. Their immensity is vast but inert — horizons without revelation, shelter without intimacy. Taliesin West’s drafting studio, with its pitched roof and open sides, attempts to bridge this divide. But whe... See more

Wright believed that “space is the breath of art.” If so, suburbs are holding their breath — suspended between the exhale of urban density and the inhalation of nature. Suburban planning itself exists in this liminal space, what urban theorists recognize as a deliberate in-between: not the mixed-use vitality of urban communities, nor the productive... See more