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Summary
Appliance House is a house divided, and its cleavage is situated in the very matter of architecture. It is a House that is continually coming apart at the seams, animated by forces that pull it in apparently opposite directions.
- Its program draws it toward the archaic and the contemporary.
- Its production process employs pre- and post-industrial practices.
- And its constructed form is simultaneously substantial and ephemeral.
Such operations appear to be contradictory, and one may be tempted either to privilege one over the other or to sublate their difference through some kind of synthetic operation. But the logic of either/or is no longer operative in this House. One must, as Donna Haraway suggests, employ a kind of double vision. For "single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters." It is only in this curious kind of double vision and through this strange double talk that one can begin to perceive and to examine the complexities of the question, What's the matter with architecture?
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