Underneath this, there was something Roman: Towards a New Architecture: Part Two

Standards and Economy

A standard manifests through experiment of a stated problem: a sane morality.

Utility, comfort, practical arrangement within an emotional relationship: architecture.

On this lovely December day, I realized that I had left my home to attend to a need that a house should be able to fulfill. Was it being able to sit outside and enjoy fresh air and a breeze that I found appealing? Or, perhaps the social need to be among other people was the element of place that my apartment lacks? (My room actually doesn't have a window in it, so a hunger for daylight and air is understandable."...a house is only habitable when it is full of light and air...".) However, is my living room not engaging enough with its typical windows and standard leasing furniture?

I ask myself these questions as I find myself sitting at Starbucks.

Food for Thought

Le Corb suggests that the "modern man is so bored to tears in his own home that he goes out," and I am proof that the home doesn't constitute proper gathering or comfort (Le Corbusier 121). Yet, architecture, like a car, has a simple "function" and many complicated "aims," as a machine for living is (Le Corbusier 137). All people have the same needs.