TY - BOOK ID - 78543390 TI - Indoor America : the interior landscape of postwar suburbia PY - 2018 SN - 9780813941585 9780813941806 081394158X 0813941806 PB - Charlottesville, Va University of Virginia Press DB - UniCat KW - Verenigde Staten KW - 72.036 KW - 747.036 KW - 711.4 KW - 711.581 KW - 71.03 KW - 20ste eeuw (architectuur) KW - Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) KW - 20ste eeuw (interieurarchitectuur) KW - Twintigste eeuw (interieurarchitectuur) KW - Stedenbouw KW - Buitenwijken KW - Suburbs KW - Voorsteden KW - Stedenbouw (geschiedenis) KW - Architecture KW - suburbs KW - interior architecture [object genre] KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - United States KW - Suburban life KW - Space (Architecture) KW - Architecture and society KW - Architecture and space KW - Negative space (Architecture) KW - Space and architectural mass KW - Space in architecture KW - City planning KW - Outskirts of cities KW - Suburban areas KW - Suburbia KW - Cities and towns KW - Metropolitan areas KW - Architecture and sociology KW - Society and architecture KW - Sociology and architecture KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Composition, proportion, etc. KW - Growth KW - Human factors KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78543390 AB - Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls-these are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the postwar years, examining their design, use, and representation. By drawing on a wealth of examples ranging from the built environment to popular culture and film, Andrea Vesentini shows how suburban interiors were devised as a continuous cultural landscape of interconnected and self-sufficient escape capsules. The relocation of most everyday practices into indoor spaces has often been overlooked by suburban historiography; Indoor America uncovers this latent history and contrasts it with the dominant reading of suburbanization as pursuit of open space. Americans did not just flee the city by getting out of it-they did so also by getting inside. Vesentini chronicles this inner-directed flight by describing three separate stages. The encapsulation of the automobile fostered the nuclear segregation of the family from the social fabric and served as a blueprint for all other interiors. Introverted design increasingly turned the focus of the house inward. Finally, through interiorization, the exterior was incorporated into the all-encompassing interior landscape of enclosed malls and projects for indoor cities. In a journey that features tailfin cars and World's Fair model homes, Richard Neutra's glass walls and sitcom picture windows, Victor Gruen's Southdale Center and the Minnesota Experimental City, Indoor America takes the reader into the heart and viscera of America's urban sprawl. ER -