Six on Four: IE University Architecture - Culture and Theory V - 2011: Pt. 2

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First of all, I must state that this essay is intended to build on the ideas presented in the outstanding book

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against the feminine concept of domesticity, mostly through the creation and mediatization of

happens in the context of the Cold War, when there had been a proliferation of the suburban house, and we could even talk of a domestic spacial regime, inhabited by a heterosexual, white couple and their children (consequence of McCarthy's puritan moral and the economic convenience of the family as a consumption nucleus) [1].

Let me make a parenthesis to remark that this idealized world, which can be understood as the inverse of the playboy lifestyle, was somehow reproduced in Celebration, a master-planned

reality that incarnates the values of purity and innocence which are attributed

1. Beatriz Preciado, Anagrama, 2010, pp. 38-40

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