Living is Leaving Traces
week 5
Heynen, Hilde. 2009. “‘Leaving Traces’: Anonymity in the Modernist House.” In Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today., edited by Clive Edwards, Trevor Keeble, Penny Sparke, and Anne Massey, 22:119–28. Oxford; New York.
Leaving Traces : Anonymity in the modernist house.
Modernity and Homelessness Overall, I found this article to be very interesting. According to the author, Hilde who was referencing theorists such as Adorno, Bengemin, and Heidegger, the modernist house became so because of the rejection not only of “traditional...
W5 – Leaving Traces: Anonymity in the Modernist House
Summary: In Chapter 7, “Leaving Traces: Anonymity in the Modernist House,” Hilde Heynen explores the tension between modernist architectural ideals and the human need for personal expression within domestic spaces. Modernist architects aimed to create universal,...
Machine for living or living for the machine?
Summary In “Leaving Traces: Anonymity in the Modernist House,” Hilde Heynen explores how the modernist house embodies a constant drive for change and progress, standing in contrast to the 19th-century bourgeois dwelling, which symbolized stability and social status...
Reimagining Modernism Through Domestic Life
Summary Hilde Heynen’s article explores the tension between modernity and domesticity, arguing that modern architecture often undermines traditional notions of dwelling. Philosophers like Heidegger and Adorno saw modernity as inherently destabilizing, leading to a...
Decorative Elements and Identity
Hilde Heynen's article "Leaving Traces" is simultaneously a history lesson revolving around the concept of a home, and a critique of the gendered, capitalist nature of the heavily decorated home designs of the 19th century. As the modernists began to take footing...
Modern Architecture and the Lack of Personality
In Chapter Seven of “‘Leaving Traces’: Anonymity in the Modernist House”, by Hilde Heynen, important points are made in regards to modern architecture and the lack of personality, creating a very impersonal and unrealistic living situation. A quote from this...
Domesticity Without a Trace
Hilde Heynen claims the house of the modern man no longer facilitates a function of living. Though there is a home, the architecture, interior architecture, and ideals of modernity of the twenty-first century has evolved to insist on constant motion and progression...
Modernist Architecture for Inhabitants’ Engagement
01_Summary This article argues that the modernist design of dwelling has eradicated the conventional ideas of home providing the sense of welcoming, warmth, comfort, and individuality. In contrast, modernist architecture has put emphasis on functionalism, and...
The Need for Privacy and Comfort in a Modern World
Summary: Hilde Heyen discusses the phenomenon of modernity in architecture and how, through the desire for 'progress and emancipation,' a metaphorical homelessness is established in domestic life. This form of homelessness is an intentional ideal that intends to...
Modern Interiors and the Evolution of Home
Reading Takeaway Through reading “Leaving Traces’: Anonymity in the Modernist House” by Hilde Heynen, the main argument that was revealed to me is how the shift to modern interiors changed the “coziness” feel of many spaces at the time to ones that were more open...
Approaches to “Modernism” in Homes
Reading Summary/Takeaway: In the chapter “‘Leaving Traces’: Anonymity in the Modernist House,” Hilde Heynen explores how the concept of Modernism in homes led architects and inhabitants to remove all individual decoration from the home. Modernity focuses on change...
Hostility in Modern Architecture
The search for the ideal form of architecture has been ongoing since the beginning of time itself, and will likely never reach a point of complete clarity. Architecture is based on many ever-changing factors, and thus, architecture is difficult to define. Ornament,...