An unfinished-looking house can destabilize the everyday domestic order of its inhabitants

Evidence

Gehry: It’s confusing. I was wondering the other day what effect this had on my family. I’ve noticed my wife leaves papers and stuff around on the table so there’s a kind of chaos in the organization of how we live in the house. I was beginning to think that it had something to do with her not knowing whether I’m finished or not. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 288

Categorization

• CANDY: Amusing detail about the architect wondering whether his wife’s mess reflects the house looking unfinished — a light anecdote for conversation.
• SHARE: Share with anyone interested in architecture psychology — the built environment leaking into domestic habits.
• XREF: connects to: Housework produces no lasting creation, linking domesticity to transcendence’s failure — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1252; Modernity is defined by its endemic, incurable unfinishedness. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 650
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Housework produces no lasting creation, linking domesticity to transcendence’s failure — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1252; Modernity is defined by its endemic, incurable unfinishedness. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 650